Not likely. Somebody has to teach these skills. The techniques of
searching internet search engines and databases, in my experience, are not
part of the curriculum in K-12 and while students are often required to
find quality articles for their projects and research, little or no
attention is paid to teaching them how to find these articles. Most K-12
teachers that I have met over the years do not know that many if not most
states in the United States provide access to some databases from EBSCO,
First Search and some other databanks and that in some of these databases
are selected content of full text magazines, trade journals and academic
journals. When students do not know about, let alone know how to use
such tools, the quality of their research work goes down and they are ill
prepared for doing college level work.
Articles & Databases
The New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases
Content Sample
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Free Web resource - available anywhereA2A - Access to ArchivesContains
catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the
900s to the present day.
Accessible only at select Library locations
ABES: Annotated Bibliography of
English Studies
Covers secondary literature in English Studies in four main subject areas:
Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, and Film
Studies.
Free Web resource - available anywhereNew York Online Virtual Electronic
LibraryAcademic One FileThis database has extensive coverage of the
physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts,
theology, literature and more. It also contains some full text titles that
are cited in databases such as AGRICOLA, CINAHL, EconLit, ERIC, MEDLINE,
MLA International Bibliography, PsycINFO and others.
Accessible outside the Library with your NYPL card
Academic Search PremierA
multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals,
including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to
the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470
journals.
Accessible only at select Library locations
AccessUN Index, articles and full-text database of United Nations
documents
covering 1998-present.
Accessible only at select Library locations
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
Provides online access to a fully searchable collection of high-quality
books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
Free Web resource - available anywhere
AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and
VendorsProvides links to websites of publishers throughout the world,
searchable by alphabetical, geographical, and topical lists.
And in New York City that is just a small part of the letter A in the
above content sample.
MORE:
DATABASE OR DATABASES
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INTERNET RESEARCH
http://tinyurl.com/n8mokd
INTERNET SEARCH
http://tinyurl.com/lbacf9
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@temple.edu
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