LIB120-02

Online General Periodicals Databases
 
 

NAME:

NOTES:

• This assignment must be word-processed and will be accepted for credit only until: December 3rd.
• If this assignment is completed satisfactorily, you can earn up to 20 points toward any test grade for this assignment. Poor quality, incomplete work will be returned ungraded.

REVIEW THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE BEFORE YOU BEGIN:

The Information Trail: Tracking the "Flow of Information" 

http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/flow/
 
 

Choose one of the following events: 

• Fall of the Berlin Wall – November 1989
• Terrorist Bomb explodes on Pam Am flight 103/Lockerbie Scotland, December 1988
• South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, February 1990
• Tiananmen Square Massacre, China, April, 1989,

Event you chose to track:

Actual date of event:
 
 

Use any of the following three databases and one library catalog to complete this assignment:

• Academic Search Premier
• Academic Universe
• Article First
• HELIN library Catalog

For each item you are asked to find you must 

• write the citation in MLA format and 
• write a one-sentence summary for the earliest date (closest to the event) that you can find an article in the format requested for on this event.

Newspaper article citation and summary:
 
 
 
 

What database did you use?

What search statement did you write?

How much information did the article provide? 
 
 

Popular Magazine Article: (list the citation and one sentence summary for the earliest date that you found in a magazine):
 
 
 

Identify the characteristics that tell you this is a "popular or general" magazine article:

What database did you use?

What search strategy used?

What was published first, the newspaper article or popular magazine article and WHY ?
 
 

Scholarly Journal (peer reviewed) Article: (list the citation and one sentence summary for the earliest date that you found in a magazine):
 
 
 
 

What database used?

Search Strategy used?

Identify the characteristics that tell you this is a "scholarly or peer reviewed" journal article:

What was published first, the newspaper article or popular magazine article and WHY?
 
 
 
 

Find a book on the event: (list the citation for the earliest date you can find for a book published on this particular event):
 
 

Where found?

Search Strategy?

How long after the event was the book published?

What does this say about the relevance of periodical information vs. books (monographic information)?
 
 
 
 

Encyclopedia Article:

Citation: 

Summary of article:
 
 
 
 
 

What is the purpose of an encyclopedia article?

How can it help college students begin research?
 
 
 
 

MCM 3.1.00, revised, 10.22.01