Title: An Introduction to Science Resource Center
1An Introduction to Science Resource Center
- Dr. Jun Wang
- Delta College Library
2Expected Learning Outcomes
- Be able to locate Science Resource Center from
Delta College Library web page - Understand the characteristics and the search
options of the database - Be able to conduct a topic or keyword search and
locate needed scientific information - Be able to narrow the search from magazines,
journals, and newspapers - Be able to evaluate, print, e-mail, and cite the
retrieved sources
3Librarys Home Page
4Database Overview
Database Overview
5Topic Overview
Play the audio
6Click here to find research articles from
professional publications
Topic Overviews
Play the audio
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Click on Search
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Type in a specific search term
Select a search option from the dropdown menu.
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8Click on Narrow to find subheadings
9- Select a subdivision
- Click on the title link to
- read the full-text article
10Elements for the source citation
11Go to the website to find MLA examples
- Please note The following sample citations from
Gale need to be tweaked. - Use double space between lines
- Indent the second and forthcoming lines within
each citation - Keep only the main URL lthttp//galenet.galegroup.c
omgt before the first - single forward slash followed by a period.
12Tweaked Citation
If there are more than three authors, you may
list the first authors name, followed by et al.
Or, you may list all authors names. Reverse
only the first authors name.
- Hannah, Elizabeth L., et al. Drug-Resistant
Escherichia - Coli, Rural Idaho. Emerging Infectious
Diseases - 11.10 (2005) 1614. Science Resource Center.
- Gale. Cengage Learning. San Joaquin Delta
College - Library, Stockton, CA. 17 April 2009
- lthttp//galenet.galegroup.comgt.
13Tweaked Citation(with all authors)
- Hannah, Elizabeth L., Frederick J. Angulo, James
R. - Johnson, Bassam Haddadin, Jacquelyn Williamson,
- and Matthew H. Samore. Drug-Resistant
- Escherichia Coli, Rural Idaho. Emerging
Infectious - Diseases 11.10 (2005) 1614. Science Resource
- Center. Gale. Cengage Learning. San Joaquin
Delta - College Library, Stockton, CA. 17 April 2009
- lthttp//galenet.galegroup.comgt.
14Citing Electronic Resources MLA Style
15Assessing Your Learning Outcomes
- Where do you go to find Science Resource Center?
- What are some of the characteristics of the
database? - Given a topic, such as Escherichia Coli, how
would you conduct a search and locate needed
scientific information from the database? - Would you be able to narrow your search to
subtopics within a broad subject in magazine,
journal, and newspaper articles? - How do you print, e-mail, and cite the retrieved
sources?
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