[nabs-l] Library Databases

[Ashley Bramlett]

Neel,
That's nice to hear. I've had plenty of issues navigating databases.

Clemson is a good school; my dad graduated from there.

Ashley


-----Original Message----- 
From: Neel Sheth via NABS-L
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:12 PM
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Cc: Neel Sheth
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Library Databases

Hello Vejas,
In general, I haven’t had any issues navigating my university’s library 
website or the database list. I usually use google scholar, and the science 
databases. Though, I’ve also found that jstor is also vary accessible. the 
area where you may have issues is citing the sources. At Clemson, we use 
refworks as our citation manager, and though it’s perfectly accessible, the 
page isn’t divided into many headings or frames, so navigation is very 
tedious. For a list of sources, I just created a list of sources in 
refworks, and imported the list into an RTF document on my computer.
Continuing on finding sources however, I’ve also found that if you find a 
wikipedia article on your topic, the reference list at the end of the 
article is a great place to find journal articles that may be useful.
> On Sep 12, 2017, at 6:16 PM, Vejas Vasiliauskas via NABS-L 
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> One of my classes  is going to rely heavily on narrowing Internet search 
> results down to reputable sources using databases and the library 
> archives. I haven't had any experience with databases before.  In the 
> past, and as a high school student, we were occasionally recommended to 
> use them, but we could also just go online and find things with Google. 
> The databases  which I will primarily be using are my school's library 
> database and the MLA database. We are also allowed to look at old archived 
> material from the older times, which is available in our library but which 
> I am guessing would not be available electronically. I just wanted to ask 
> you all what your experiences using databases have been. How much sighted 
> help have you needed? Are you easily able to take something from a 
> database and save it for later use?
> Thanks,
> Vejas
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