GED/GSA 579:  Searching Expanded Academic ASAP Research Library

NAME: ______________________________Answers due next week.

1. Go to Expanded Academic ASAP  

A. What is the purpose of this database?  Try the Gale Group Databases link in the left had column

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Go to Expanded Academic ASAP and click on Journal Search (let hand column)

B. Does this site index and give full text up to current date for the journal ---  "Harvard Business Review"?

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C. Does this site index Business Week?  How far back?   When does Full Text start?

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D. How many journals does the Expanded Academic ASAP  database index that have the word   -- management  --  in the journal title?

2. Click on the HELP_SEARCH  icon in Academic ASAP and Answer the following

A. What is the truncation and wildcard symbols used in this database/index?

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B. What are the STOP WORDS in this database?

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C. What are the Proximity Operators used in Academic ASAP?

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D. What are the Logical Operators used in Academic ASAP?

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3.    You are thinking of traveling to Costa Rica.  Do the following search in Keyword Search Mode to find periodical articles on this topic.

A.  How many "hits" do you come up with?

B. Try the search 

- How many hits in this search?

C. Full Text Search - 

Search for words in title, citation, abstract in entire article content

- Do the same search as in 3 B. (but click the in entire article content tab like above.  How many "hits" do you get now?

D. Proximity Searching -in an entire article

Look in one of the full text articles to see if the word Costa Rica is within 5 words of beach

4. Field Searching

  Click on Advanced Search

Using the Advanced Search   Do 3 different Separate searches limiting the search to the following field:

A. Author field: Cronkite, Walter   - how many hits as author?  __________

B. Subject field:  Cronkite, Walter    - how many hits as the subject?  ___________

C. Article Title Field:   Honduras   - how many hits as the word in article title?  ___________

5. Write out a search statement on a topic of your own interest in the box below.  Break down your statement into searchable terms. 

 A. Do  3 searches in Advanced Search mode on your topic.  Try searches that expand and narrow the number of hits found  and that improve accuracy.  Remember to account for variant spelling with truncation (wild cards), synonymous terms and phrases. 

Write each search out below, number of hits found for each search and we will go over them in class.

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6.  In Advanced Search Mode do the following.

A. Search for articles from one journal title "Harvard Business Review"
- Hint- enter "Harvard Business Review" in the Journal Name field.

B. Narrow the search in 6 B. to a "Harvard Business Review" article having to do with leadership

Give one article title

7. Do a search -- on Economics and GDP  -- and  limit the search to refereed publications

Use the Help function to find out what Refereed publications means

Give the title of the Refereed Journal

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8.. I need to find a journal article from Newsweek, 1953.  Will Expanded Academics ASAP cover that period?

What other Index might I use to find articles from Newsweek during that time period?

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9. Find an full text article about "online searching" from Academic ASAP and bring to class.
Briefly evaluate the article by the following criteria: criteria is explained @ http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html  (We will cover these in class in more detail)
a) authority
b) coverage
c) audience the article is trying to reach
d) bias (point of view)
e) accuracy

10.  How do you find out if Expanded Academic ASAP indexes the journal  Scientific American?

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