Gale eBooks (formerly GVRL) offers students, researchers, and professionals over 200 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on various subjects to tackle their assignments, papers, projects, and presentations. This is a great resource to get the background information you need to do a well-informed research project.
- Start from library home page:
- In the 鈥淪hortcuts鈥 box, click Databases.
- Click the 鈥淎ll Databases鈥 tab and scroll down to G.
- Click Gale eBooks (formerly GVRL).
Basic and Advanced 抖阴福利导航
You can choose between a Basic and Advanced search.
Basic 抖阴福利导航
The Basic search is usually a good place to begin. Once you enter your search words and complete your search, look at the right side of the screen for ways to make your search more specific. For example, Topic Overview, under the Document Type button, provides articles with background information on your chosen topic.
Select an article that matches your topic, and the amount of information you are looking for. On the top-right of your chosen article are options for citing the article, emailing it to yourself, downloading to the device you鈥檙e using, printing, and more.
Toward the bottom of the article you can find a shaded box called 鈥淪ource Citation鈥, which includes an MLA 9 formatted citation that you can use for your Works Cited page.
To the right of the article, you will also find 鈥淓xplore鈥, which includes articles similar to the one you鈥檙e viewing, and a list of subjects related to your topic.
Advanced 抖阴福利导航
Advanced 抖阴福利导航 is great for limiting your results to encyclopedic entries in a specific discipline, such as biographies, history, or law. This function will also make Boolean searches easier with separate fields for each search term, and dropdown menus for operators like 鈥淎nd鈥, 鈥淣ot鈥 and 鈥淥r鈥 and for designating keyword, subject, and other limiters.
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