Cabrillo College Library

Cabrillo's Dept. of Accounting and Finance

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Use Search Engines

Find Books

Evaluate this Exercise

How to Get to this Exercise

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage. Towards the top of the screen is a long rectangular box with the word Address or Location next to it. Using the mouse, click somewhere in that box -- what is there will become highlighted. Hit the Backspace key. Now, type in http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
2. Click on Internet Links (third icon down on the left)
3. Click on Accounting
4. Scroll down, and under Course-Related Materials, click on Accounting -- Internet Adventures for Beginners

• Print out the Web-based Exercise-- if you are in the Library, printouts cost $.10/page; pick up prints at the Circulation Desk.
• To do the exercise, read the pages you printed out and follow the directions. Write your responses on the pages you have printed out.
• Frequently, an activity in the Exercise will require that you come back to this Web page. To do that, follow the steps outlined above (Cabrillo College Library -> Internet Links -> Accounting). Or, use the Back button (top left of your browser's toolbar).
  • If you're in the Library doing this Exercise, please feel free to ask the librarians at the Reference/Instruction Desk for assistance.
  • If you are doing this exercise at home, or in a Lab on campus, add this Web page to your Bookmarks (Netscape), or Favorites (Internet Explorer). That way, you can get back to it easily.

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage as you did above [Remember: if you are at an Information Workstation in the Library,clicking on HOME towards the top of the screen will take you there.]
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Internet

1. If you're not already registered, and you're on campus at the moment, go to NetLibrary to register.
2. Click on "Create an Account." Remember your user name and password! Now you'll be able to use eBooks from off campus.

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage, as you did above
2. Click on Library Catalog (first icon down on left)
3. Click on WORDS -- we're going to do a word search on the catalog
4. Click in the search box and type in the words accounting ebooks

Select one of the books by clicking on the title, then (in the middle of the screen) click on Access this electronic book via the World Wide Web. (It might be fun to select Accounting and Finance for your Small Business or Great Jobs for Accounting Majors, but you choose!)

Click to bring up full information about the eBook. Then click (usually in the center of the screen) to bring up the eBook itself. Then, click on View this eBook

NOTE: Your computer's browser may display some of these steps in a slightly different fashion, but just persist until you have the eBook on your screen. If you are in the Library, please feel free to ask for assistance at the Reference/Instruction Desk.

Look at the Table of Contents for the book, browse one of the chapters, etc. Note down something you learned:

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Here's how you use Academic Search Elite

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage as you did above.
2. Click on Fulltext Articles  [If you are coming in from off campus, your user ID is your library card number] 
3. On the next screen, click on Magazine & Journal Articles  (EBSCOhost) (top left)
4. On the next screen, click on 
5. On the next screen, click on  (toward the top) 
6. Click in the small box next to Full Text. This will limit your search to articles that are fulltext in the database.
   
   Let's say you are looking for articles about software to help businesses with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. [The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 became law after the Enron and WorldCom financial scandals; it is meant to protect shareholders from accounting errors and accounting fraud.]
   Next to the word Find: type Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. In the search window below, type the word software. Then, click on the SEARCH button.  

Select an article. From the results list, click on an article title to get to the screen with full information about it

Periodical title (look where it says Source):__________________

Article title ___________________________________________

Date of the periodical__________________________

Once you have the fulltext article on your screen, notice that you can print, email, or save it. For example, if you want to email it to yourself (or someone else), just click on E-mail towards the top of the screen and type in the email address.

Create citations    When you use information (including images) that you did not create or write yourself, you credit the individual(s) from whom you obtained them. You do this by writing a citation for the material. Citations are written following a specific pattern, as illustrated here:



Note that the title of the periodical is underlined (if you are using word-processing, put titles in Italics instead of underlining them). Note also that all but the first line of the citation is indented. This is to make the authors' names stand out when you make a list of the sources you used.

Here's a citation for the print version of an article published in Computerworld titled "IT Managers Brace to Meet Ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Demands." [There's great interest in software being used so help companies comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.]



A citation for the electronic version of this article must include information about the database publisher, the library where the article was accessed, the date the article was retrieved, and the URL [Internet address] for the database.



Your turn! Search for an article about compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. Write a citation for the article you found following the citation guides given above.

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1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on News/Newspapers
4. Click on Santa Cruz Sentinel (in first grouping: California Newspapers)

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Accounting

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1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Search the Internet (fourth icon down on the left)
3. Click on Search Engines
4. Click on Google
5. Type in "Home Depot" "annual report" 2003 (You use the quotation marks to hold words in phrases together. You figure there will be various annual reports on the Web, and you want this particular one, so you include the year.)

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• Use quotation marks to keep words in phrases together. Example:if you want to search for the word accounting next to fraud, your search statement would be "accounting fraud"
• Computers are literal. They only look for what you tell them to look for. Check for mistypes! Try different words!

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A little stuck on how to do this? Click on hints.

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Library Catalog

When you click through to the screen that gives you full information about the book, notice that it tells you not only its author, title, publisher and year of publication -- but also its location in the Library (Main Stacks, Reference, etc.), its call number, and its status (if it says "CHECK SHELVES," it should be on the shelf by call number; if it's out, the due date is indicated).

Note down the call number (the whole call number) for one print book that looks interesting to you:

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Go find the book on the shelves in the library. Here's a library floor plan that will show you where the Main Stacks are (on the floor plan, it's the area marked as BOOKSTACKS), etc. Feel free to ask for assistance at the Reference/Instruction Desk. If, by chance, the books you want are not on the shelves (someone else is probably using them), look at the books shelved nearby. They will be on very similar topics, and may interest you.

You're welcome to check books out!

If you don't yet have a library card, it only takes a few minutes to get one....it's free to you as a student, and is very valuable. Anyone can access the Cabrillo College Library Web site from anywhere in the world, and there's a lot there to use. However, if you're off campus and you want to use those wonderful online fulltext resources, you need your library barcode number.

There's a wooden table to the left of the Circulation Desk where you can fill out the form to get your card. Take the form to the Circulation Desk. You'll need a picture ID.

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Accounting
4. Scroll down, and under Course-Related Materials, click on Accounting--Internet Adventures for Beginners

T. N. Smalley 1/04; last rev. 9/04