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Archive
Contents:
- Ebscohost's
Visual Search -- It "groks!"
Sorting you
results list by "relevance"
Central
Search, ORU comprehensive database
Clusty, Ixquick,
etc. - Alternatives to Google
Find a book review in the Library
catalog
Plagiarism
Finding
country information
Locating
an "essay" from the
citation in ATLAS Religion Database
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EBSCOhost's
Visual Search --It "groks." |
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"grok" is to understand
completely... profoundly...
in a global sense.
In
Visual Search, all relevant
information that matches your
search is categorically clustered,
or "grokked," then
visually displayed. Use grokking
to locate articles, get research
ideas, explore similar concepts,
narrow a subject, broaden
a topic, and more. |
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your results by "Relevance." |
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If articles
at the top of your search
results list are NOT available
in full text this may be due
to an "embargo,"
a full text delay put on a
journal by the publisher.
For example,
full text for the last six
months or year of a journal
may not be available in the
database. Since the most current
articles usually appear at
the top of a result list (in
reverse chronological order),
sorting your results by "relevance"
may put more full text articles
at the top of your list. |
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Central
Search |
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it out! Select
multiple databases to search
at one time, including the
ORU Library Catalog, ebooks,
and other ORU databases.
Search
Tips
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| Try
Clusty, Ixquick, or Teoma as alternatives
to Google. |
| Clusty
- http://clusty.com/
The "preview" option
opens a small window within
the page. Retrieves 250-500
results then clusters them
by subjects ...read
more.
Teoma
- http://www.teoma.com/
Search with authority ...read
more.
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| Find
a book review in the Library Catalog. |
A
software product called Contents
Cafe allows users to view
book reviews within selected
book records in the ORU Library
catalog. To view a book review,
click the "Reviews"
link (if available) in the
Library catalog book record.
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| For more
information on finding
book reviews check out
the following: |
| Search: |
Books-In-Print.
Or, when searching other
ORU databases set limits
to "Reviews"
or similar term. |
| See: |
Finding
Book Reviews in the
Research Basics Library
tutorial. |
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| What
is plagiarism?
How can you avoid it?
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Plagiarism
is using another's work(s) as
your own and is a violation
of copyright law. To avoid plagiarism
always cite your sources.
Check out The
Plagiarism Court,
an excellent interactive tutorial
by Ramona Islam, Dimenna-Hyselius
Library, Fairfield University.
http://www.fairfield.edu/x13870.html |
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also: |
Documenting
in the Research Basics
Library tutorial. |
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To
easily locate information about a
country use the Foreign
Countries, Cultures, and Missions
Library guide. |
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ORU Library guides include a
list of selective Web resources.
For example, the Foreign Country
guide includes
CountryReports.org, Portals
to the World (Library of
Congress), and World
Fact Book (CIA) |
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| If
you have a citation for an essay,
search the ORU Library catalog for
Find an "essay"
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Essays
are part of "multi-authored
works" (i.e., books) and
are not found in journals.
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The ATLA
Religion Database includes
more
than 200,000 essay citations.
If an essay citation appears
in your result list,
to locate the essay search
the ORU Library catalog, or
other library catalog, for
the "book" title. |
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