A
Guided Activity to Demonstrate Accessing and Using Florida State College at
Jacksonville's Databases
for Dr. Gilmore’s LIT 2000 Class
Following the steps in this activity will give you a
brief introduction to using the library databases.
If you have any questions or problems, please don’t
hesitate to contact Barbara Salvage, Librarian, South Campus Library
Learning Commons,
bsalvage@fscj.edu .
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Go to the Florida State College at Jacksonville Library
Learning Commons home page at
www.fccj.edu/library
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Click on LINCCWeb,
the gateway to over 100 databases
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You will be required to provide ID:
o
Select Florida State College at Jacksonville as
your college in the top drop-down menu
o
Borrower ID = Social Security number (no hyphens or
spaces)
o
PIN = last four digits of Social Security number
§
If you get a message that your ID is
invalid or expired, you will need to contact a College library staff
member; contact information is available at
http://www.fccj.edu/library/hours.htm
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LINCCWeb will open with a list of subject categories
into which the 100+ databases have been grouped
·
Click on the category Literature
o
A list of subject-specific databases focused on literature
will be displayed
·
Click on the database
Literature Resources from
Gale
(Later when
you are doing your actual research, you will want to use other databases in
this group as well)
·
Click on “Connect to Database”
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Type rose for emily
in the box labeled Name of Work
·
Type william faulkner
in the box labeled Person-By or About
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Below you will see some options you can use to Limit
results
o
Limit your results to documents with full text by clicking on
the box beside that option
§
This will screen out any index entries that do not link to the
actual article
o
If you want to retrieve only peer-reviewed publications
click on the box beside that option
§
Not all of the literature databases provide this option, so
remember this one when you need to restrict your articles to peer-reviewed
sources!
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Click on the search button
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The first article in the results list is
1.
Faulkner's A Rose for Emily.
Laura J. Getty.
The Explicator.
63.4 (Summer
2005)
p230.
From
Literature Resource Center.
Full-text PDF page(s)
- To view the article, click on either the Full-text
link (HTML) or the PDF pages link.
o
PDF is a scanned version of the article and looks just like
the article as it appeared in the original publication, with graphics and
page numbers intact.
o
HTML full-text usually omits graphics and retains just the
text of the article. Its benefit is that it is often easier to navigate and
read than PDF.
- To print the article,
e-mail it to yourself, or download it, see the Tools panel on the
upper right of the screen:
Tools
View PDF pages
Print Preview
E-mail
Download
Download MP3
Citation Tools
·
Another helpful feature in the Tools panel is “Citation
Tools.” Click on that link for help with creating your MLA citation.
WARNING: the suggested
citations created for you in Citation Tools are just a good starting
point. They contain formatting errors, and should be carefully reviewed
using guidelines or resources your instructor has provided.
o
Click on Citation Tools
o
Under Generate a Citation, select MLA
o
Click Save
o
Click Open
o
A window will open displaying the suggested citation. Here is
the suggested citation for our article as displayed by the Citation Tools
feature:
Getty, Laura J. "Faulkner's A Rose for Emily." The
Explicator. 63.4 (Summer 2005): p230. Literature Resources from Gale.
Gale. FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE AT JACKSONVILLE. 21 May 2009
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRG&u=lincclin_fscj>.
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Close the Citation Tools window
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To go back to the list of articles on Faulkner’s “A Rose for
Emily” retrieved from this database by our search, click on the “Back to
Results” link at the upper left (right under the tab that says “Literature
Criticism”).
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View any of the other articles in the list that you wish to
use in your research
·
When you have finished with this list of articles and are
ready to leave the database Literature Resources from Gale,
exit by clicking on the X at the upper right corner of your screen.
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You will be returned to the screen with the button labeled
“Connect to Database”. Don’t click on the button or you
will be returned to the database you just left! Instead, click on “Click
here for databases list.”
Trouble connecting? Click here.
Click here for databases list.
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This time, choose General (instead of Literature) from
the list of categories.
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From the list of databases that opens, select
Academic Search Complete.
o
The databases in the General category are not restricted to
any one topic
o
Academic Search Complete is an important all-purpose
academic database.
·
Click the blue button
·
Type worn path in
the search box (this is the name of a short story by Eudora Welty)
- If
you want to limit your results to peer-reviewed sources, click on the
option
:
Scholarly
(Peer Reviewed) Journals
·
Click Search
·
To select an article from the list of results, click on the
full-text link for that article
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When the article is open, look at the icons on the top right.
The first 3 icons will enable you to print, e-mail, and save the article.
The 4th icon, the unmarked yellow page with upper right corner
downturned, is the link that will provide you with a suggested MLA
citation. Remember to compare it closely with Dr. Gilmore’s guidelines!
o
The yellow file-card icon on the left of the screen marked
Citation (not shown here) provides the information you need to construct a
citation, but does not provide the format.
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To get back to the list of articles retrieved by our search so
you can continue your research, click on the “Result List” link (upper left
of the screen).
This concludes the activity designed to give you a brief introduction to the
use of Florida State College at Jacksonville’s library databases. Now you know the basics and can begin your
research. Feel free to contact me if you have any problems or questions.
Barbara Salvage, Librarian, South Campus Library Learning Commons
bsalvage@fscj.edu
August 2009
