Introduction
In the dark about research? Usually, when you have a
research assignment, you need books, articles, and
information from the
web.
This tutorial will cover articles:
where to start your search and how to use a typical database
to find articles
online and in print.
At OCC Libraries you are able to access many
periodicals (magazines, journals, and newspapers) in their
traditional forms--paper, microfiche, and microfilm. OCC
Libraries also provide you with dozens of web-based databases of
electronic periodicals.
Each database contains anywhere from hundreds to
over a thousand different periodicals. The coverage for each
periodical comprises multiple years. And when you consider
that each periodical has multiple articles, the overall collection
linked from the OCC Libraries web page "Articles / Databases" contains millions of articles, as well
as citations to articles (i.e., information about you where you might find
articles in print form).
Access to these databases is
available, both on- and off-campus, via a variety of OCC Libraries web
pages.
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If you are
on-campus: The main page,
"Articles / Databases," has
on-campus
links. Use those if you are on any OCC campus.
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If you are
off-campus:
Near top of the main page is a
yellow box. You may enter your OCC Library
card to get to a page of
off-campus
links.
Blackboard or Educator: Students in classes using
either of these online courseware systems may have special pages of links
inside the systems
for both on- and off-campus use. Ask your
instructor.
Let's review the main page with on-campus links
to OCC periodical databases,
"Articles / Databases." It
will open in a new window so that you may feel free to explore.
After you're done, close that window and you will automatically
return here. (If you have a problem with a link opening in a new
window because of a pop-up blocker on your PC, try holding down the Control
(Ctrl) button on your keyboard when you click on the link.)
Go
to "Articles / Databases" now. We'll wait...
...Welcome back.
The next page is the table of contents.
Check it out to see where this tutorial is headed. Following
that will be a few definitions, and then we'll see how a typical database works.
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