In other words, if you are searching for information about "teenagers", you should also search the terms "adolescents", "adolescence", "youth", as well as "teenagers" to be sure you retrieve all the relevant articles or documents. I will explain this further when I discuss search strategies for searching databases.

BOOKS: When beginning a research paper, it is sometimes useful to locate books on your subject. Though the information is not as current as that found in periodical articles, books offer historical or general background information that may be useful. Under Locate Books, you see links to several catalogs.

• To search for books in the UNM Consortium catalog, click on the FIND BOOKS link and then click on LIBROS to go to the LIBROS home page and search the catalog for books and other documents. At the LIBROS web page, you will see you are searching the entire LIBROS consortium, which includes several libraries within the state of NM.

• To search for a particular author, like Gay L. R.:

Click on Author.

In the search box, type Gay L (It is best not to put in a middle initial, since it may be too limiting. If you type in only L R and the first name is spelled out in the database, you would retrieve 0 hits. Using an L will retrieve Gay with all first names beginning with L).

It is not necessary to understand the intricacies of searching but just be aware that the computer often will search for only what you type in exactly. To be safe, try all options and possibilities.

Click on Search.

Click on the link for the 2000 edition.

In the future, if you ever want to order a book found in LIBROS, go back to the WGU Central Library home page, click on Document Delivery and sign on to ILLiad to establish an account.

• Click on Start Over to go back to the LIBROS Home page

• To search for a particular title, click on Title and in the search box, type in the title of any book and click on Search.

• To search for books by subject, click on Words. This will look for the keyword(s) you type and will retrieve all the records for books that have that word in the subject headings or within the title of the book. For instance, at the Word search box, type:

  instruction* and design* and computer* (with the and's and *'s).

  Using the truncation symbol, *, you will retrieve all the records with the stem or root word plus that stem with all it's suffixes., i.e. instruction (as well as instructional, etc.) and design (as well as designing, etc.) and computer (as well as computers, computerized, etc.).

• Click on Search to retrieve the records.

• As you examine the records of the books, you will see the word you typed in somewhere in that record, which is how the computer found this record. Go through the list to see if anything interests you. Choose other subject keywords in your own subject area.

• Search by Subject, as opposed to Words, only if you know and are sure about the Library of Congress Subject Headings, something even librarians refer to less and less, with the advent of computers allowing for other modes of less cumbersome searching. For instance, Instructional Systems--Design is a Library of Congress Subject Heading. From the LIBROS screen, click on Subject and type in this subject heading to see how specific search results can be if you know the heading. Click on any of the books. At the record, scroll down the screen to see the subject term, Instructional Systems--Design. Most records in all databases have a Subject field where you can find the subject headings that database uses, and which you can then use to retrieve more of the same kind of hits. Any time you are viewing a record that is relevant to your search, scroll down to the subject headings to see what subject or descriptor was used and then redo your search with those terms/phrases.

• Click on the Back button to get back to the Find Books page. Under LIBROS, you will see a link to WorldCat. WorldCat is a global database of all books cataloged by major academic libraries in the U.S., as well as libraries around the world. If you do not find the books you want in LIBROS, and if you find them in WorldCat, we will attempt to borrow them for you. To search WorldCat, a database in FirstSearch, click on the link and enter your User Name and Password (see email from orientation coordinator). Click on Login to FirstSearch databases. At the FirstSearch screen, at Jump to Advanced Search, choose the database WorldCat. At the WorldCat page, look for any book you choose. When completed, click on Exit at the top right in the window to go back to the WGU Library page.

• Under Find Books, there is also a link to your WGU Bookstore if you want to hasten the process and purchase the book. If you need textbooks, purchasing them is the best route as libraries often do not purchase textbooks, making it difficult to find titles to borrow for students. On this page, you will also find links to other new and used book dealers.

• You will also see a link to ILLiad, the interlibrary loan service. From here, you can follow the links to open up your own ILLiad account. Once the account is established, you can order articles (if you can not find the full text in FirstSearch's WilsonSelectPlus database) and books. They will be sent directly to your home/office.

• Go back to the WGU Central Library home page.

ARTICLES: Periodical articles from scholarly journals, popular magazines or newspapers provide current and specific information on your topic. Click on Find Articles. Then click on Connect to FirstSearch to access over 60 databases in all subject areas.

• Click on "Connect to login page for all FirstSearch databases"

• Enter your ID and Password in the box (if you have already done this in the previous step, your computer will remember the password for your entire session and connect you directly)

• Click on Login to FirstSearch databases

• At the FirstSearch screen, at Jump to Advanced Search, select WilsonSelectPlus from the pull-down menu. At the WilsonSelectPlus page, in the box preceded by Search For, type: technology. In the second box, type education.
• Click on the Search button.

• The next screen, "List of Records," lists the records found with your search terms.
  The records that say "View Full Text in HTML format," or "View Full Text in PDFformat" will contain the full/complete article.
  Since you have so many hits using just these two terms, lets narrow or refine the search.

• Click on Searching at the top to go back to the Advanced Search screen.

• Add the term curriculum in the third box, after the "and."

• Click on Search.

• You should now have a smaller, more manageable set of records, all having each of these three words in the records, and therefore all dealing with technology, education and curriculum.

• Pick an article that sounds relevant and click on the Title of the specific article to first see the abstract. Read through the abstract to see if it is something you want to retrieve. Also note the Subjects or Descriptors to see what terms are used in this particular database. You may want to go back to the "Advanced Search" screen and try some of these other terms in your search. To see the entire article, click on any of the View HTML Full Text links.

• You can use the icons on the top of the page to print, email to someone, or yourself if you are in a location other than your own computer, or download the article.

• Do a search in your subject area.

Do you have any questions about search terms you might want to use? Remember to try different terms, because you never know what terms may actually be used in the titles, subjects, or articles. The computer just looks for the precise terms you use.

Do you have any questions about what you have done?

Back at the WGU Library page, click Find Articles again. Click on Connect to ABI/Inform. This database includes full text articles and article citations in the areas of Business and Computer Technology.

• Enter the Account Name and Password. You can request these passwords from the Questions link (wguclr@unm.edu).

• Click on connect.

• At the ProQuest search screen, click onAdvanced Seach. You will now be at the Advanced Search screen which allows you to enter your search terms and keywords in the boxes and the ANDs are already there. Type instruction? in the first box, computer? in the second box and design? in the third box. In this database, a "?" is the truncation symbol that retrieves all suffixes of a root word (plurals, etc.). Look at your results. Under each record title, you will see links to the Full text, Page Image - PDF, Text + Graphics and/or Abstract. Once at the screen showing the full article, you can print, save or email it. Email one to yourself.

• Try another search in your subject area. Note that you can limit your articles to full text or peer reviewed (scholarly). You can also change the date range if desired.

SCAN THE REFERENCE BOOKSHELF: Back at the WGU Library page, click on Search for Subject Guides & the Web. On the Search the Web page, click on Electronic Reference Shelf. This will take you to a page of reference sources that may be helpful for general or background information. These sources are the equivalent of those you might find in the Reference Area of a public or academic library. They include encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, etc. You will also find Style Manuals, which is a necessary resource in writing papers.

• Click on Style Manuals
• Click on Citing Sources - Duke Libraries
• Scroll down the page to Citing Sources Within your Paper. Choose the style you want from the pull-down menu and click on Go.

DISCOVER RESOURCES BY SUBJECT:
Go back to the Search the Web page and click on Discover Resources by Subject.

• Click on Information Technology
• Under Related Web Links, check out some sites. If there is a link you would like to see added there, send the URL (Web site address) to me and I will add it. If there are additional subjects you would like to see, let me know.

• Use the Questions link to ask any question that you encounter as you do your research. Use the link during this orientation or any time throughout your coursework at WGU. You may have questions about passwords, what database to use, what keywords to use, how to use a Web search engine, how to obtain an article or book, or you may have technical computer questions. Your questions will most likely come to me, Barbara, or Rebecca, or perhaps another one of our librarians, depending on your questions or subject area.

• Use the ILLiad link from the Find Books or Find Articles link to order books, articles and documents you were not able to find online. To set up your ILLiad account, click on this link and follow the directions. Once you have established your account, you will be able to click directly to the service and order your materials. You will also be able to monitor the transactions as they are in process, until the item is received by the UNM Library and mailed to you.

• The Electronic Reserves link will connect you to any E-reserve items your mentors have chosen to make available to you. You will need the most recent Adobe Acrobat Viewer installed in your computer to view the articles. There are instructions for downloading this software if you do not already have it. You will need to obtain your Ereserves password to use this link.

• We will first look at Yahoo, a search directory. Search directories are much smaller databases than search engines and are looking at a very small part of the Web. They are often used for more general, are often hand-picked or more specifically chosen sites reviewed by subject experts. It is best used as an encyclopedia to browse through the subjects. Remember, when you are looking in Yahoo, you are only looking in a relatively small portion of the Web. As a result, you will retrieved a more focused and relevent set of sites. It is often a good place to begin a search.
• Click on Yahoo.
• On the Yahoo page, scroll down the page and click on Education.
• Scroll down this Education page and click on Instructional Technology
• Scroll down this Instructional Technology page and find a site that is interesting to you.

• Go back to the WGU Search Page and Click on Google.
• In the search box, type education technology classroom
• You will see a list of retrieved records ranked by relevancy with the most relevant ones at the top of the list. If you should click to the 10^th or higher page, the hits will be lots less relevant. This means that in the top of the list, the words you typed in above probably occur most frequently, closer together, are closer to the top few paragraphs in those relevant documents than in the ones on page 10. Every search engine uses it's own parameters and programming to accomplish this goal.

• Now go back to the search box and add the word design, so the search now says education technology classroom design. The results now will have the word design added to the records. This is a simple way you can continue to narrow down your searches just add additional words you want to see in your results. Boolean operators can be used in some search engines. We will talk more about this in future tutorials.

• Go back to the WGU Search Page, choose another search engine to do the same search. There is generally a Help link or button on most pages. Use this link to see how that particular search engine database works. How different was the ease of use or the results with the one(s) you tried?

LEARN USING TUTORIALS AND GUIDES:
The Tutorial Links will bring you to a list of tutorials that will help you navigate the Web.