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Gale: Basic Database Access

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online databases are great resources when you're doing research weather for an extensive research paper or a short assignment I need to look up factual information they give you reliable up-to-date information and the resources are easy to fight I want to show you how to access those resources and look up article from South campuses website use the resources tab at the top to navigate to nols library once you've arrived at the North library site on the right hand side there are two resource Ali the first is for General research and the second is specific to English resources if you're doing a paper or an assignment for Taylor to literature that for today's purposes I'm going to tap on English resources to open up that page you'll see the research databases are along the left hand side you have an icon that is a link to the database and then a description along the right-hand side of it explain what that database provides we're going to look at using Gale database today most of them operate pretty much the same way and that for today's purposes values and Gale literary sources pretty sure these databases you do need a password that I can't publish on an open Forum check your income teachers canvas page for passwords for the databases are swing by the library we got them posted in here or we're happy to and point them out to you clicking on Kelly resources will open up that database and again the first time you navigate here I'm home at will require you to login with a password I've already logged into it takes me immediately to the search page from this point I need to determine what I want to look at if I'm doing a paper over over particular topic then in Gale database I would want to type in that topic start Broad and if your results are too numerous and see if you can narrow that topic damned if I take another piece of literature the best place to start just by typing in the title of that piece of literature so let's say I'm researching the short story The Lottery can I type in the title of the story and hit search and I get a list of articles there are over a thousand articles particular to literary criticism related to the lottery that I immediately default to but if you noticed across the top I have some other options if types of article that I can retrieve from search the other one that I think might be really helpful and looking at literature at this topic and work overview there are 135 of those I'm going to tap on that one that's going to provide me some critical data is well so now that I have a list of articles I need to scroll through look at the article titles read the summary to see if I can find one that looks like it might be helpful when I do I'm going to tap on that article title to open up the article once I have the article opened up I need to scroll through and make sure it looks like there's information I'm going to be able to use in my paper or project if it looks like it's going to be useful that I'm going to slow down and do a little bit closer read and do some highlighting and annotating perhaps in here which I can show you how to do an another V if I do use information from this article I need to remember to cite it and that is a very simple to do from the databases I'm going to go up here to this toolbar and there's a button that says site I tap on that button and it opens at the citation that's automatically in MLA format in order to sign it all I have to do is make sure that I'm logged into noodletools click on the noodletools button and it will in that article citation directly into the noodles project that I have created if you need more help in setting up noodletools you'll find another video that shows you how to use site projects out of the databases if I found this article to a particularly helpful and I might want to come back to it and retrieve additional information from it at a later time do you have an option to save these articles as well notice up at the top that you have the option to sign in with Microsoft while you're in jail so I'm going to go ahead and tap on that and sign myself into Microsoft to my school to Microsoft I've already done it so notice up here the top now it shows that I'm signed in when you do this for the first time it will take you to the schools Microsoft login site where you put your school email address and then your school password and once you've done that and it says log you end up here then I can send this article to my OneDrive to my Microsoft OneDrive so there's a button down here that looks like a cloud that will send call directly into OneDrive or I can come up here and click this into and specify that I want to send this to my OneDrive and it's saying okay I sent that to your Microsoft OneDrive it'll surely what happens is in my first. They have created a folder that is the title of this database so that folder is going to say Gill literature and in that go with her to be careful or you'll see a document title overview in the lottery and that is this article that I sent them if I annotate or highlight within this article it was in those annotations and highlights in it as well for me and at the bottom of that article it will have the citation information when I have finished reading and gleaning information from this article I can hit the back arrow to go back to that results list and open up additional articles and do research within those articles as well also. get that you do have other types of results to choose from here along the results bar if you need help with any part of the research process stop by the library for assistance

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