GALILEO home page http://www.galileo.usg.edu.

USING GALILEO

GALILEO stands for Georgia LIbrary LEarning Online.

GALILEO is a World Wide Web-based virtual library that provides access to multiple information sources.

Students at Georgia Technical Colleges can access over 100 databases with thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. Over 2000 journal and magazine titles are provided in full-text.

If you are on Campus, you don’t need the password.

For off-campus access , contact the library staff to get the password.

http://www.galileo.usg.edu

The Galileo Homepage

Perform a basic search for information from the GALILEO home page.

Then click on the magnifying glass icon.

Enter your topic into the text box at the top of the page.

When you perform a search, you will be shown the results page.

You can see the number of articles that your search located.

You can modify your search so that you get fewer results and results more focused to your needs are.

You can limit your search to full-text articles and scholarly academic journals.

You can also limit the search to a particular date range.

Too many articles?

You can modify your search so that you get fewer results and results more focused what your needs are.

You can limit your search to a particular type of publication.

Too many articles?

On the GALILEO home page click on the "Advanced Search" link below the search box.

Using advanced search, you can combine search terms and limit a search to a particular field.

Advanced search techniques in GALILEO.

Advanced Search allows you to limit your search to a particular field.

A search can limited to any of these fields.

You can choose which field you want to search.

ADVANCED SEARCH IN GALILEO

You can perform a simultaneous search in different fields.

When you do a search for information,

You will receive a list of all of the items that match your search terms.

If you see an article in the results list that you might be of interest to you, click on the title and you will be provided with more information about that article.

The record for an article can help you decide if you want to read the full article.

Subjects covered in the article.

A summary of the article.

The record for a particular article will tell if full-text is available.

This is the text of an article in HTML Full Text.

It does not include any images that were included in the original publication of the article.

It is not formatted as it was in the original publication. That makes it harder to read.

The text of the article can be easily copied and pasted into another document.

Some articles are available in both PDF Full Text and HTML Full text.

HTML Full Text can be easily copied and pasted into another document. But it can be difficult to read on a computer screen.

PDF Full Text will provide you the article exactly as it appeared in the original document. It is formatted for easy reading, but you may not be able to copy and paste the text of the article.

Your best option may be to obtain an article in both formats.

To view the record of an article, click on the title of an article in the list of results.

This is the full record for a particular article.

Notice the Subject Terms in the record. If you click on one of the subject terms, GALILEO will perform a new search for other items that use the same subject term.

A click on the subject term “PHARMACY students” resulted in a search for other articles that used that same subject term.

A tool bar will appear on the right hand side of the screen when you look at the record for an article. The tool bar will also appear when you are viewing the full text of an article.

There are icons on the right hand side of an article that give you options on how to deal with an article.

Add to folderPrintE-mailSave CiteExportCreate NotePermalinkShare

Using your GALILEO folder, you will be able to: Save your searches so that you can go back to them at any time and view the updated results

Organize your research (articles, reports, etc.) into folders you can create & name

Share those folders and their content with others who also have a an account

Create email alerts to notify you of the latest new editions of a journal in the database or to alert you to the latest research on any topic of interest

Access any of your saved documents from anywhere

CREATE A GALILEO FOLDER

Set up your GALILEO Folder by filling out the online form.

Sign into your folder with the username and password that you established.

You can save your research work and come back to it later.

Information concerning articles you have found can be saved in your folder.

The “Print” button allows you to add the citation to the article in the format you want. Here the user wants APA format.

You can send the article to someone by email. A good technique is to send the article to yourself. Notice that you can include a correct citation to the article in the format you prefer.

You can save the article to your hard drive or flash drive.

By clicking on the “Cite” button, you can obtain a correct citation to the article in the format you want.

If you are using bibliographic software such as EasyBib, EndNote, or Zotero, you can save the information about an article by “exporting” it and then going into your bibliographic management software and “importing” it.

This means you would not have to retype the information into your software.

You can attach a note to something you found in your research. It will be saved to your folder, and you can go back to it later.

A Permalink will let you go back to the article in GALILEO. You will need to copy and save it in another document.

The “Share” button allows you to post the article in various forms of social media.

For example, when you click on the button to share to Facebook, you are asked to log into Facebook and then finish the form to post the article.