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Google Verses Gale
Why using databases and eResources can be more useful than using Google for Research.
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Google Versus Gale
Your results in Google are websites that anyone could have written and you need
books, magazine articles, and newspapers.
Over 33 Million Results!
First result is a state government site for adults not children.
Second result for the university.
Random articles on university
sports.
Google search your state.
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
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You can’t trust everything you read online.
Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?
http://www.jocolibrary.org/templates/JCL_NewsListItem.aspx?id=5801
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What is in Wikipedia?
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Everything you see here…
Academic Journals
Magazines Websites Reference Books
VideosNewspapers
What are in Databases?
eResources at the Library
[Insert Link to Library’s eResources]
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Important Tools to Point Out: Home Page Level
Type in your search term here, just like Google.
Browse down to narrow your
topics here.
Do an Image search or for a specific type of content just like
in Google.
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Google Versus Gale
General Information article so you don’t have to go to Wikipedia
for info…and
The Factbox answers the most basic questions.
Newspaper, Magazine and Encyclopedia articles all in
one place!
Quickly find the state flag.
Get safe, reliable content at the right level without overwhelming results!
Newspaper article from
the New York Times for free.
Gale Search Results Set
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Important Tools to Point Out: Search Results Level
Click on the title to read the full text article.
Look at the icon to see
what kind of article it is.
The citation information tells
you what book the article comes from.
Tools at the Search Results Set
Use the overview article to avoid the Wikipedia information
search.
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Important Tools to Point Out: Article Level
Read full text article online
without having to pay per
article.
Have the article read to you or put it on your
IPod!
Print the article here!
Email the article to
read later.
See the reading
level here.
Tools in the Articles
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Sample Practice Search
Your seventh grade student is writing a paper on any American president of his choice. Help him
get three different types of sources for his paper.
1. "John Adams 1735-1826." American Eras. Detroit: Gale, 1997. Gale Student Resources In Context.
Web. 23 Nov. 2010.
2. Image. "John Adams." (National Archives and Records Administration)
3. Elliott, Stuart. "Using a founding father to promote the art of letter-writing." New York Times 11 Mar.
2008: C8(L). Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 23 Nov. 2010.
Sample Assignments and Searches
