quiz & library day jared peet. warm up we will begin our quiz as soon as class starts. please...
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Quiz & Library Day
Jared Peet
Warm Up
• We will begin our quiz as soon as class starts.• Please remove EVERYTHING from your desk
EXCEPT a pen.• You will have 15 minutes to complete the quiz.
Google Drive Checklist
“Research Project” folder in History Shared Folder
Sources document – “Last Name – Sources”RNCs document – “Last Name – RNCs”Know your person and topic question
Identifying Sources
• Reserved Book Cart– Can’t check out– Photocopy relevant
pages
• Encyclopedia Britannica• Google• JSTOR/ProQuest
• NOT ACCEPTABLE:– Wikipedia (but you can
read it for context)– Non-academic websites
sites ending in .com or potentially .org)• Exceptions: Newspapers
ENCYCLOPEDIAS: BRITANNICA
Browsing Britannica - http://school.eb.com/Username: acs Password: acs
Discover Britannica > Subjects
Sharing, Citing
THESE CAN BE USED DIRECTLY IN THE SEARCH BOX AND GIVE THE SEARCHER INCREDIBLE CONTROL OVER THE SEARCH PROCESS
OPERATORS AND LIMITERS
And, Not and Or Google Can Help Better Your SearchBoolean Operators
NOT
Boolean Operators• jazz OR blues• This search finds articles that discuss either jazz or blues.• OR always broadens a search.• jazz AND blues• This search finds articles that examines jazz and blues. • AND always narrows a search.• jazz NOT blues• This search finds articles that are exclusively about jazz. • NOT always excludes records with the specified term.
What Boolean Operators Do
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-NOT
Precede each term you do not want to appear in any result with a “–” sign.
• To find pages without a particular term, put a – sign operator in front of the word in the query.
• Do not put a space between the – and the word.
TRY THESE• USE: Beirut -Ohio• NOT: Beirut - Ohio
• Pearl Harbor -film
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“WORD” EXACT WORD OR PHRASE
Why advance search features are important.Using quotes to indicate exact phrases ensures your search returns the results you want. Without quotes, Google assumes AND but will find the terms anywhere in the document.
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~SYNONYMS
Synonyms• Find synonyms by preceding the term
with a ~, which is known as the tilde or synonym operator.
• The tilde (~) operator takes the word immediately following it and searches both for that specific word and for the word’s synonyms.
• It also searches for the term with alternative endings.
• The tilde operator works best when applied to general terms and terms with many synonyms.
• As with the – operator, put the ~ (tilde) next to the word, with no spaces between the ~ and its associated word,
TRY THESEo “Cold war” ~films o “Cell respiration” ~quizzes
● If you don’t like the synonyms that Google suggests when you use the ~ operator, specify your own synonyms with the OR operator described earlier in the presentation.
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* WILDCARD
USE *, AN ASTERISK CHARACTER, KNOWN AS A WILDCARD, TO MATCH ONE OR MORE WORDS IN A PHRASE (ENCLOSED IN QUOTES).
TRY THESE"John * Kennedy""to * or not to *""Type * diabetes"
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LIMITERSGoogle allows you to limit your search in many ways.
Limiters: Sites and Info
• Site: websites or domains– www.acs.edu.lb or
edu– searches within the site or
domain indicated
• Info:– finds Google’s cache, pages
similar to, linked to, pages from the site, or that contain the term
Limiters: Sites and Info
• Site: websites or domains– www.acs.edu.lb or
edu– searches within the site or
domain indicated
• Info:– finds Google’s cache, pages
similar to, linked to, pages from the site, or that contain the term
TRY THESE:● search term
site:nytimes.com● site:edu● site:uk● info:website● info:history.com
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Limiters: Last Updated, Language and Region
• Last Updated can be accessed from the search tools below the search box.
• It is best to use Advanced Search to limit by language and region.
• It is possible to limit by region using site: to indicate a country.
• TRY THESE– “search term” site:fr or site:uk– "Cold War" site:nz– ~research "Cyber*bullying" site:ca filetype:pdf
Limiters
• By– Last Update– Useful for information on current events, recent research in the
natural and human sciences.
– Date range– Useful for primary sources from a particular date range
TRY THESE– “nigerian civil war” Search Tools Custom Range 1960 - 1980– short term memory ~studies site:edu Search Tools Past Year
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Limiters: File types
• By– File Type: pdf, ppt, doc, swf, – This is one way to look for specific types of files. There is a different
way to filter by different media (image, video, book, etc….)
– Google index of searchable file types– Useful for finding multi-media material, articlesTRY THESE: filetype:swf or choose a different file type with any of these terms: cell division, volcanoes, trench warfare
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LIMITERS: TERMS APPEARING
No colon b/w limiter and search term
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For More Info on Advanced Searching . . .
• Go to the Research Project Resources folder in Topic 10 on Moodle– PPTs on Britannica, JSTOR, ProQuest, Google
Searching and more . . .
Goal for the Library . . .
• 20 RNCs due by end of class on . . .– Section 3 – Friday, 5/16– Sections 1 & 2 – Monday, 5/19
• Put each source into “Sources” document– Label each source A, B, C, etc.
• For each RNC:– Label with source letter and # of card (A-4, B-2)– One fact per card; if you cite, must put in quotes and
paraphrase– If source has a page number, include in bottom right
Central Research Question
• How did your assigned figure from the Scientific Revolution help bring about a paradigm shift in the way humans understand the natural world?