Citing our Free Databases the Quick & Easy Way

Rachel ShanklesLMS

Lakeside High SchoolHot Springs, AR

An online citation needs these parts:• An Article or Publication in Electronic Form• Provide the following information in your citation:• Author's name (if not available, use the article title as the first part of the citation) • Article Title • Periodical Name • Publication Date • Page Number/Range • Database Name • Service Name • Name of the library where or through which the service was accessed • Name of the town/city where service was accessed • Date of Access • URL of the service (but not the whole URL for the article, since those are usually

very long and won't be easily re-used by someone trying to retrieve the information

IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN

Link to Ark State Lib Citation Page for the free Databases

• http://www.asl.lib.ar.us/how_to_cite.htm

• But I found the links didn’t really go to help sites

• Just too complicated and too many steps

http://ezbib.com/

Leaves out Subscription service and state and they might not know

the database name

Why not use online citation sites?• Kids don’t know what it is asking them to

input in the forms• They shouldn’t have to memorize all that• There should be a simpler method• They are used to point and click, copy

and paste• Tweaking method becomes more a habit

than learning all the elements of a citation

http://find.galegroup.com

Do Search, Find Article, then Find “Source Citation”

on article page to Copy

Source Citations in Gale Discovering Series Database Looks

Like This• "The Holocaust: America's Response, 1941-1946."

DISCovering U.S. History. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. ARKANSAS STATE LIBRARY - TRAVELER. 8 June 2009 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2104240225&source=gale&srcprod=DISC&userGroupName=arstate&version=1.0>.

Copy Source Citation and Paste into Word Document and Tweak it

1) Make sure the author info is last name first (if it has author)

2) Add your library name, city, state abrevs after ASL-Traveler (which is the subscription service)

3) Shorten the URL (since pay for view) to the .com 4) Make sure ends with >.5) Reverse indent6) Save the Word doc to add more citations to and

to alphabetize later

Ends up Like This:

“The Holocaust: America's Response, 1941-1946." DISCovering U.S. History. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. ARKANSAS STATE LIBRARY – TRAVELER, LHS, Hot Springs, AR. 8 June 2009 <http://find.galegroup.com>.

EBSCO Magazine Databases

• This has over 13 different databases of magazine, newspapers and encyclopedias

• Each article would technically be cited differently if magazine OR newspaper OR encyclopedia

• EBSCO has a citation link to trace and copy that captures the exact database name and other essential info so find it and copy it

Find the button on bottom or top to “Cite This”

EBSCO – copy this and paste to doc

• Bar-Hillel, Mira. "Commemoration on the cheap." New Statesman 138.0 (25 May 2009): 32. MAS Ultra - School Edition. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 8 June 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=40084202&site=ehost-live>.

After Tweaking EBSCO

Bar-Hillel, Mira. "Commemoration on the cheap." New Statesman 138.0 (25 May 2009): 32. MAS Ultra - School Edition. EBSCO. LHS, Hot Springs, AR. 8 June 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com>.

Encyclopedia Britannica site

•http://school.eb.com/• (call or email me for your school passcode)

Find the link to “Cite Article”

EB copy and paste this

• "Holocaust." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 8 June 2009 <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9040821>.

Tweak EB to add library and city, state, and subscription service & shorten URL since pay-for-view

• "Holocaust." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Traveler, ASL, LHS, Hot Springs, AR. 8 June 2009

<http://school.eb.com/>.

A Copy, Pasted, Tweaked—Works Cited Page

Bar-Hillel, Mira. "Commemoration on the cheap." New Statesman 138.0 (25 May 2009): 32. MAS Ultra - School Edition. EBSCO. LHS, Hot Springs, AR. 8 June 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com>.

"Holocaust." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.T raveler, ASL, LHS, Hot Springs, AR. 8 June 2009 <http://school.eb.com/>.

“The Holocaust: America's Response, 1941- 1946." DISCovering U.S. History. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. ARKANSAS STATE LIBRARY – TRAVELER, LHS, Hot Springs, AR. 8 June 2009 <http://find.galegroup.com>.

Guidelines• Steer them to BOOKS first• Databases 2nd

• Internet search engines last• The general Internet is too

large and unauthoratative for intense educational research

Makeup of the Internet

25% Educational Research on the Internet

• 12.5 % or half of the educational stuff is on the Invisible Internet /Pay-for-View sites like our database subscriptions or copyrighted materials - This is the good educational stuff – Primary source documents and they are not visible to search engines

• 12.5 % Visible thru Google or other search engines and might be written by other teens or anyone; these have to be scrutinized for authenticity and accuracy

Contact Me

Rachel ShanklesLakeside High School2871 Malvern Ave.Hot Springs, AR 71901School: Rachel_Shankles@LakesideSD.orgHome: Shankles@cablelynx.comSchool: 501-262-1530Home: 501-624-7138