Databases Online subscription databases @ your library © EBSCOHost

Databases

• Online subscription databases @ your library

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What is a database?

Collection of articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, and books that you need a subscription to read.

We pay for a subscription to databases so you have access to thousands of articles for free.

Information comes from reliable sources that are intended for educational use.

Accessing the databases

From school AND from home:Go to www.rebelslibrary.com

Click on Online Resources

Click on EBSCOHost, Gale or Encyclopedia Britannica

Type in your passwords

Go to www.rebelslibrary.com

E-Books

lonestar

Click on subjects to see books

Type your search terms

Click on EBSCOHost Articles

Log In

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Databases @ your library

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User-friendly but not as many articles

Read the whole article

Narrow your search

Save

Print

Everything you need to cite your source

Databases @ your library

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More information from college-level databases.

Choose your databases

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Start your searchCreate an accountso you can access

your saved articles from anywhere!

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Narrow your search

Choose the date range

Choose the kind of source

Narrow your subject

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Read the article

HTML just has plain text, no

pictures

PDFs are scanned from

the actual source

Hover over the magnifying glass

to read a summary of the

article

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Save to fileSave to folder

The abstract is a summary of the

article.

Add notes

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Citing your sources• The databases will do your citations for you!

• Save or print documents, they will ask you

to choose a style (MLA) and then your citations will be included at the top of your article.

• Just copy and paste it into your Works Cited!

• For help, go to www.rebelslibrary and click on Class Projects, then “Getting citations using the online databases? 2

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Choose MLA before saving

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Copy and Paste the Citation

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Go to www.rebelslibrary

Click on Online Resources

Choose your database

Citing Your Sources

Why??

• To acknowledge your sources

• To allow readers to locate and examine your sources

Types of Citations

• MLA

• APA

• Turabian

• Chicago Style

Setting Up the Page

• Center the title “Works Cited” at the top of the page

• Double-space between the title and the first entry.

• Begin each entry flush with the left margin; if the entry is more than one line, indent the additional lines. (hanging indention)

• Double-space all lines ( both between and within entries)

Setting Up the Page

• All entries are in alphabetical order.• Usually by the author’s last name.• If there is no author, alphabetical by the

first word in the title.• Author entries and Title entries are listed

together in one alphabetical order.

Works Cited

“Bilingual Education Is a Human and

Civil Right: A Rethinking Schools Editorial.”

Rethinking Schools Online. Rethinking Schools.

Web. 21 Jan 2010

Edwards, Brent Hayes. “The Literary Edge.”

Newsweek 15 Dec 2009: 5-15. EBSCO. Web. 21 Jan

2010.

Gaines, Kevin. Duke Ellington. New York: Little

Brown, 2001. Print.

“Going to the Dogs.” Guitar Oct 2008: 8-9. EBSCO.

Web. 21 Jan 2010.

Citations Made Easy!

• From www.rebelslibrary.com

• Click on Online Resources

• Click on Landmark Son of Citation Machine

Print resources you can hold in your hand

Nonprint resources are anything from the Internet

Use the ISBN on the book’s barcode to look

it up automatically

Fill in any missing or additional info

Copy and paste this into your bibliography

Copy and paste this to cite information in your paragraphs