2. Material Available
At Home/ School At ONU
• Catalogs • Catalogs
• Core EBSCO • Core EBSCO
• Unique databases
• Books

3. Available EBSCO Databases

4. Available EBSCO Databases
March 2010

5. Resource Providers
• InfOhio – serving Ohio’s schools
http://www.infohio.org/ER/ER9-12.asp
• OPLIN – serving Ohio’s public libraries
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/index.cfm
• OhioLINK – serving Ohio’s college and
university libraries
http://www.ohiolink.edu

6. Printing, Downloading, Saving
• All three catalogs allow you to mark entries
and later to save or E-mail them.
• Most databases offer the same options
• If you have created an EBSCO account, you can
save articles to it.
• If you have a flash memory device, you can
save articles to it.
• Today, you SHOULD be able to print without
charge in the labs.

7. EBSCO Account
Click here
to logon
or create
an
account

8. RESEARCH TOOLS
• Catalogs – includes printed and E-
books, maps, government
documents, etc.
• Research Databases – covers
periodical articles, statistics, etc.
• Web Resources

9. CATALOGS - SIZE
The amount of material covered by each catalog varies. The larger the
catalog the more likely you are to locate items of use.
POLAR – 400,000 items
OhioLINK – 10 million+ items
WorldCAT – 110 million+ items

10. Database Search Strategies
• Specific searches – author, title
• Concept searches - subject, keyword
• Limiting features – date, language, etc.
• Search history – records searches and allows
you to mix and match terms

11. Major Types of Searching by Concept-
Keyword
• Looks in several locations (usually subject,
article title, abstracts or contents)
• Does not require an exact match
• Generates comparatively large number of hits
(not precise)
• Good if you are not familiar with terminology

12. Major Types of Searches by Concept-
Subject
• Looks in one place – subject
• Usually requires an exact match between your
term and a pre-set list of terms
• Precise
• Can be used after keyword search has
identified specific subjects

13. Search Screen Conventions - POLAR
Multiple search
term boxes

14. Search Screens - POLAR
Set type of search.
Default is keyword

15. Search Screens - POLAR
Set logical
relationship
between
terms:
•And
•Or
•Not

16. Search Screens - POLAR
Focus search
by limiting

17. Search Screens - OhioLINK

18. Search Screens – WorldCAT.Org

19. Search Screens - EBSCO

20. Catalog Content
Materials commonly listed in catalogs:
• Books
• Maps
• Music Scores
• Audiovisual materials
• Government documents
• Increasingly links to resources on the Internet
Not newspaper and magazine articles

21. Other Sources
Bluffton Public Library
• Can fill loan requests
• Need to have a library card (parental permission required)
• See: http://blufftonlibrary.oplin.org/Interlibraryloan.htm
Bluffton University
• Does not fill loan requests, but materials can be used in the library
Findlay/ Hancock Co. Public Library
Macomb Public Library

22. Contact Us
Use the “contact us” link on the Heterick
home page or E-mail or Instant Messaging
• t-moritz@onu.edu
• plogsdon@onu.edu

23. Databases
• Used mostly for locating newspaper and
magazine articles
• Access controlled
• Offer broad and subject-specific
coverage
• Available to general public via InfOhio and
OPLIN (some)

24. Multi-disciplinary Databases
• Academic Search (EBSCO) available state-wide
• Lexis-Nexis – licensed sites (OhioLINK)
• Opposing Viewpoints – licensed sites
(individual libraries)
Available from Heterick home page

25. Additional Materials