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Science Resource Center
Navigation Guide
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Science Resource Center is an exciting new online database UXL Encyclopedia of Science, 2nd Edition, 10 volumes
designed for use in high school libraries and classrooms,
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Beacham’s Guide to Endangered Species, North America,
community colleges and public libraries. Similar in concept
6 volumes
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to other Thomson Gale resource centers, Science Resource
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Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 5 volumes
Center combines many different types of content,
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■ Content Level indicators (details below) help students HOME PAGE identify the most appropriate content (you may choose to disable this function) ■ Timeline Search (details below) places science events and discoveries in context to historical events ■ Spotlight articles highlight timely and interesting science topics; a new article is posted every two weeks ■ Expanded toolbox offers science-related documents and tools to help students ■ Publication Search (details below) allows y
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SEARCH OPTIONS Intermediate content builds on the research or information at a basic level. For a more experienced researcher, these arti- Powerful search capabilities deliver concise results. Search cles cover a topic in more detail, offering more background one of five ways from the main screen. It is easy to perform a information as well as contextual information to expand on full-scale search by selecting a topic from the alphabetical list the facts. An Intermediate content level i
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■ The little camera icon distinguishes articles with images: SUBJECT SEARCH RESULTS TABS ■ Full-text articles are identified by this icon. A search for DNA returned citations in all six tabs: ■ Reference, Magazines, Academic Journals, Newspapers, If the article is an abstract, this icon will be displayed: Multimedia and Web sites. An extensive Subject Guide list is ■ The content level is indicated by the following icons displayed on the left of the screen with all subjects contain-
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NEWSPAPERS TAB MULTIMEDIA TAB The Newspapers tab listed six articles from The New York The Multimedia tab results consisted of 111 multimedia files, Times; however, to view additional newspaper articles sorted by relevance. Additional sort options would include: resulting from a defaulted Keyword Search, simply click on document type, title or source. The type of multimedia file, the subtab for More Newspapers. You can toggle between whether a diagram, table, illustration, or photo, is indic
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In this search result, the Web site gave us access to an inter- NAME SEARCH active presentation on the journey into DNA and how it For Name Search, simply enter a name in the Name Search functions within the human body. Note the related subjects box and select whether you want to search for biographies links in the left margin. only of most-studied people or across the entire database for all results of a name you enter. If you know your person’s full name or last name, you can check the b
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PUBLICATION SEARCH SCIENCE STANDARDS BROWSE You can search for articles in a specific publication from the Science Standards provides teachers a way to search the Publication Search screen. Find the title by the first word of a content in Science Resource Center using national and state title or any word in the title. science curriculum standards as a starting point. Standards are displayed in a hierarchical (i.e., outline) format. Each goal/guideline may be expanded if it has additional lev
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Let’s try it … ADVANCED SEARCH A teacher wants a particular article about the death of With Advanced Search you build your own search by select- Ching Chun Li, a hero in genetics, known the world over as ing from a variety of search criteria. This lets you target the C.C. He thinks the article appeared in American Journal of results to focus more precisely on the information you seek. Human Genetics sometime during 2004. You can build as simple or as complex a search you need. Use the Adv
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SEARCH RESULTS Once you have filled in your search criteria and selected Search, a list of subject terms most closely matching your criteria will appear on the left hand side of the screen and a list of documents that meet your search criteria on the right- hand side. Related Searches lists all the subject headings containing your search term. Often you will see the term you searched for at the top of the list. This indicates that the term is in the Subject Guide’s thesaurus; clicking on t
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SEARCH HISTORY EXAMPLE OF A MARK LIST Search terms are captured when you enter a term and the “Search” button is clicked. Terms are also captured when you select a term from the Subject Guide. Scroll down the list to see search history. To execute a search from the list, select the search term and click the “Search” button next to the Search History box or double-click the search term. There will be one history list for the entire product, not one for each search path. Search history is a
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Example of Generated Web Page INFOMARK WEB PAGE GENERATOR An InfoMark Web Page Generator icon at the top of any page indicates that the URL of the page persists even when the session is over. Persistent URLs can be bookmarked for future reference, copied into an e-mail message or posted onto a Web page. With a click of the mouse, you can access a comprehensive knowledge base that you have designed. InfoMarks is the premier tool for creating reading lists, course packs, study guides, conte
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■ Click Insert Section Heading to optionally add a subhead- ADDITIONAL HELP ing title to group one or more InfoMark items. Further help using InfoMarks, including a guided tour, Note: You may add up to 50 InfoMarked items and Section FAQs, and case studies, is available at our web site www. Headings to your Web page. gale.com . For more information on how to use InfoMarks, click the Using an InfoMark icon from within Science Resource Center or refer to the If you created an InfoMark as a
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TRUNCATION: BOOLEAN SEARCH OPERATORS: Asterisk (*)— The asterisk can stand in for any number of Boolean operators used in Science Resource Center are characters. For example: applied in the order in which they appear. ■ scien* AND—both terms must appear in the essay. For example: This will return results with words like science, scientist, sci- ■ electricity AND magnetism entific. Note: you must have at least two characters preced- This search will find essays that include both electricity
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DATE RANGES: ■ 1970-1979 ■ 1938-1945 USE OF STOP WORDS: Note on the use of stopwords: Because the search engine does not recognize stopwords, your search term must be enclosed in quotes OR you can drop the stopword from the title or phrase. For example, when searching for a title con- taining the word “to”: (1) Enclose the phrase in quotation marks. The search will work on the exact phrase (example: “2001: a space odyssey”). (2) Omit the words “the” and “of” from the search (exam- ple:
