HS 21 -- Health and Physical Fitness

Librarian: Johanna Bowen
jobowen@cabrillo.edu
479-6536

Apply for a Library Card at the Circulation Desk
Bring a photo ID when you apply

To get to this webpage,
From the library homepage: libwww.cabrillo.edu
select Internet Links
then, select Health Science

Scroll down to HS 21 -- A. Saxton

Expectations for student learning:

Comfort with the language and vocabulary of the online world
Familiarity with the Library Homepage at libwww.cabrillo.edu
Familiarity with a wide range of Full text Resources
Familiarity with Web searching tools.

The big picture:

Every need for information starts with some thoughts and ideas in your head. These thoughts and ideas have to be translated into a search.

A good search is based on the careful selection of the right words to describe what your topic is about.

Reading, making choices, and selecting a file or site to view are regular activities in the online world.

Interacting with the online world takes place whenever you fill out a dialog box with your own words and then examine the results of your search.

Remember, the online sources are not "smart." You have to spell the words correctly and choose a variety of words to get useful information back from these tools.

How to find what you want:

From the library homepage, choose one of these resources: the Catalog, Fulltext articles, or Search the Internet
Write out the words to describe what you are looking for.
Study the guide to that resource (linked in the left frame of this page)
Try your search, look at a few of the results? Are they what you wanted? Redo your search with more or different words.
Talk to a librarian for help and ideas about how to get better results.

All of the Full text resources and eBooks can be used from from a home computer IF you have a valid Cabrillo College Library Card

Finding fulltext magazine / journal articles

Using EBSCOhost Web

Select Full text Articles from the Library Homepage
Under the category GENERAL choose the title Academic Search Premier
Type in your search words
Check Full Text box
Click on the SEARCH button
How does EBSCOhost search work?
EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier treats your words as if they were a phrase: found in exactly that order, left to right.

Now find one good magazine article on personality tests (do not choose a Newspaper article)

Type in your search words:
Check Full Text box
Click on the SEARCH button

What else can you do besides read this on the screen?

Print the article Click on the PRINT button at the top of the screen. It costs ten cents per page.

Email the article to yourself or a friend: Click on E-MAIL Check the option box for citation and any available full text; type in the email address; click on the submit button.

Save the article to your storage drive Click on SAVE Check the option box for display to save; click on the submit button. select File/Save as and use .txt as the extension.

You can use fulltext online resources from and off-campus site if you have internet access and a current, valid library card. You must be at the library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu Then select "Full text Articles" and follow the directions.

Finding National Newspaper articles

Be on the Library Homepage
Select Full text Articles.
From the NEWS category select ProQuest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor)
The search box on the next screen is for "Basic Search"
Enter a word (one word topic) or, a phrase like digital photography
How does ProQuest search work?

ProQuest treats your words as if they were a phrase: found in exactly that order, left to right.

Here are some search tips for using National Newspaper Articles

Use the operator AND to find all the words.

AND finds documents in which the words occur in the same paragraph (within approx. 1000 characters) or the words appear in any citation field.
Example: internet AND education
Use "quotation marks" to search for exact phrases.

If you want the words to be required you have to type in command words or operators

Study these examples for controling a search:

econom* Type an asterisk at the right-hand side of a word to retrieve all the words that start with the one you used.
Example: econom* (for economy or economics or economical)

"word word word" double quotes around a phrase when there are 3 or more words
"George W. Bush" double quotes around a name In basic search two words will be automatically seen as a phrase. Use quotes for three or more words.
"world economic conditions"

AND the word AND requires that the word be found in all of the search results
example: Japan AND religion

Finding Books and Videos in the library catalog

Select Library catalog from the library homepage at: libwww.cabrillo.edu
Think about your topic, choose your words and phrases carefully
We will do a WORDS search
Type in two or three words that describe a topic of interest to you
Write down the information for one book:

Author's name_______________________________________________

Title_______________________________________________________

Call Number:__________________________________________________

Status (is it available?) _________________________________________

The library gives students access to 20,000 Electronic copies of books "eBooks" in our catalog

Do you want to Read an eBook on your topic?

Pull down the menu for Quick Limits and choose eBooks

Check your spelling. The computer looks for EXACTLY what you typed

Using Google for research

From the library homepage
select Search the Internet
Select Google

or, click in the location box at the top of the browser screen
type this address:
www.google.com

Why use Google? Faster, better, cheaper!

Tips for searching the web:

Google automatically searches as if an AND were between any search words.
(all of the words you use in the search box will have to be in each one of the results)
Use quote marks to create a phrase and search for words in exact order, like:
"mating behavior"
"migration pattern"
Use quote marks to search for names like "George W. Bush"
or "Michael Jackson" or, "Diane Fossey"
Limit your search to one domain.
osprey "food source" site:.edu
"cliff sparrow" "legal status" site:.gov
Use the minus sign - to eliminate unwanted results:
dolphins -football
find an image (picture)
Click on Images above the Google tool bar and type in the name of your species

Using Google, identify at least one quality Internet resource on your topic. Scroll up and down the Web page to find the following information:

Author (if available)_____________________________________________________

Title_________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

Date of latest update to the Web page if available:______________________________

Date you saw the Web page______________________________________________

Web address:_________________________________________________________

See the Google search guide "Google Help Center" at: www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

econom*	Type an asterisk at the right-hand side of a word to retrieve all the words that start with the one you used. Example: econom* (for economy or economics or economical)
"word word word" double quotes around a phrase when there are 3 or more words "George W. Bush" double quotes around a name	In basic search two words will be automatically seen as a phrase. Use quotes for three or more words. "world economic conditions"
AND	the word AND requires that the word be found in all of the search results example: Japan AND religion