databases online subscription databases @ your library © ebscohost
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Databases
• Online subscription databases @ your library
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What is a database?
Collection of articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, and books that you need a subscription to read.
We pay for a subscription to databases so you have access to thousands of articles for free.
Information comes from reliable sources that are intended for educational use.
Accessing the databases
From school AND from home:Go to www.rebelslibrary.com
Click on Online Resources
Click on EBSCOHost, Gale or Encyclopedia Britannica
Type in your passwords
E-Books
lonestar
Click on subjects to see books
Type your search terms
Click on EBSCOHost Articles
Log In
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Databases @ your library
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User-friendly but not as many articles
Read the whole article
Narrow your search
Save
Everything you need to cite your source
Databases @ your library
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More information from college-level databases.
Choose your databases
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Start your searchCreate an accountso you can access
your saved articles from anywhere!
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Narrow your search
Choose the date range
Choose the kind of source
Narrow your subject
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Read the article
HTML just has plain text, no
pictures
PDFs are scanned from
the actual source
Hover over the magnifying glass
to read a summary of the
article
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Save to fileSave to folder
The abstract is a summary of the
article.
Add notes
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Citing your sources• The databases will do your citations for you!
• Save or print documents, they will ask you
to choose a style (MLA) and then your citations will be included at the top of your article.
• Just copy and paste it into your Works Cited!
• For help, go to www.rebelslibrary and click on Class Projects, then “Getting citations using the online databases? 2
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Choose MLA before saving
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Copy and Paste the Citation
Citing Your Sources
Why??
• To acknowledge your sources
• To allow readers to locate and examine your sources
Types of Citations
• MLA
• APA
• Turabian
• Chicago Style
Setting Up the Page
• Center the title “Works Cited” at the top of the page
• Double-space between the title and the first entry.
• Begin each entry flush with the left margin; if the entry is more than one line, indent the additional lines. (hanging indention)
• Double-space all lines ( both between and within entries)
Setting Up the Page
• All entries are in alphabetical order.• Usually by the author’s last name.• If there is no author, alphabetical by the
first word in the title.• Author entries and Title entries are listed
together in one alphabetical order.
Works Cited
“Bilingual Education Is a Human and
Civil Right: A Rethinking Schools Editorial.”
Rethinking Schools Online. Rethinking Schools.
Web. 21 Jan 2010
Edwards, Brent Hayes. “The Literary Edge.”
Newsweek 15 Dec 2009: 5-15. EBSCO. Web. 21 Jan
2010.
Gaines, Kevin. Duke Ellington. New York: Little
Brown, 2001. Print.
“Going to the Dogs.” Guitar Oct 2008: 8-9. EBSCO.
Web. 21 Jan 2010.
Citations Made Easy!
• From www.rebelslibrary.com
• Click on Online Resources
• Click on Landmark Son of Citation Machine
Print resources you can hold in your hand
Nonprint resources are anything from the Internet
Use the ISBN on the book’s barcode to look
it up automatically
Fill in any missing or additional info
Copy and paste this into your bibliography
Copy and paste this to cite information in your paragraphs