Showing posts with label proquest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label proquest. Show all posts
Ref Rap More Science Madness
Monique Akauola
Ref rap- More science madness!
Seeing the presentation of mad science at Sutherland library in the school holidays has reminded me of the great resources the library has relating to information about science. For aspiring scientists and anyone else who would like more science project ideas, or to conduct further experiments, there are lots of great ideas available on the World Book database. These can be accessed from world book on for kids by clicking on the Science projects icon. There are heaps of projects to choose from covering eight different areas including animals, plants, machines, matter and energy, microscopic life, our planet, your body and science you can use. There are long term experiments, last minute experiments, as well as tips for working safely. You can also access these projects plus more experiments for older students from The World book Online Info Finder.
A good starting point for future scientists and school students requiring information on general science topics is The Science Reference Centre. This database covers a wide range of scientific topics including biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. It is a full text database including access to science encyclopaedias, reference books, periodicals, newspapers and biographies. It has all the great search features associated with Ebscohost databases, such as smart text searching, saving selected documents to a folder and creating email alerts and RSS feeds. You can search within particular publications, search for images, or if you want to browse, you can search by subject. For example, typing in “science project” allows you to see all content about this topic showing the number of items available in each format. You can also limit your searches to just images, or use filters including date ranges, lexile reading level, publication type, or benchmarks.
Another choice is the Pro Quest Science Journals. This is a more academic database. It also covers a wide range of science topics in a variety of scientific journals, newspapers, trade journals, reference/reports and dissertations. This database allows the user to conduct basic and advanced searches, as well as searching by topic or publication. In a basic search, after typing the initial keyword, sentence or question, you are offered suggested topics to browse, and you have the option to narrow the search by document type.
Searching by topic allows you to enter the topic of interest or browse the subject directory. Alternatively, you can look up topic A-Z and search by people, locations, companies, subjects, dates and publications.
If you search by publication there are indicators of whether they are full text, and the coverage dates, with some titles going back to 1992. You can also create RSS feeds with certain titles.
This has been just a quick overview to remind you of three databases focusing on science, the library has on offer. They are all fairly easy to navigate and are designed to meet the scientific information needs of different customer markets. So if you have a chance, why not have a look so you can show our customers just how much more scientific it can be to use these free databases, rather than just the internet.
Seeing the presentation of mad science at Sutherland library in the school holidays has reminded me of the great resources the library has relating to information about science. For aspiring scientists and anyone else who would like more science project ideas, or to conduct further experiments, there are lots of great ideas available on the World Book database. These can be accessed from world book on for kids by clicking on the Science projects icon. There are heaps of projects to choose from covering eight different areas including animals, plants, machines, matter and energy, microscopic life, our planet, your body and science you can use. There are long term experiments, last minute experiments, as well as tips for working safely. You can also access these projects plus more experiments for older students from The World book Online Info Finder.
A good starting point for future scientists and school students requiring information on general science topics is The Science Reference Centre. This database covers a wide range of scientific topics including biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. It is a full text database including access to science encyclopaedias, reference books, periodicals, newspapers and biographies. It has all the great search features associated with Ebscohost databases, such as smart text searching, saving selected documents to a folder and creating email alerts and RSS feeds. You can search within particular publications, search for images, or if you want to browse, you can search by subject. For example, typing in “science project” allows you to see all content about this topic showing the number of items available in each format. You can also limit your searches to just images, or use filters including date ranges, lexile reading level, publication type, or benchmarks.
Another choice is the Pro Quest Science Journals. This is a more academic database. It also covers a wide range of science topics in a variety of scientific journals, newspapers, trade journals, reference/reports and dissertations. This database allows the user to conduct basic and advanced searches, as well as searching by topic or publication. In a basic search, after typing the initial keyword, sentence or question, you are offered suggested topics to browse, and you have the option to narrow the search by document type.
Searching by topic allows you to enter the topic of interest or browse the subject directory. Alternatively, you can look up topic A-Z and search by people, locations, companies, subjects, dates and publications.
If you search by publication there are indicators of whether they are full text, and the coverage dates, with some titles going back to 1992. You can also create RSS feeds with certain titles.
This has been just a quick overview to remind you of three databases focusing on science, the library has on offer. They are all fairly easy to navigate and are designed to meet the scientific information needs of different customer markets. So if you have a chance, why not have a look so you can show our customers just how much more scientific it can be to use these free databases, rather than just the internet.
Friday, October 08, 2010
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