Lesson 4 Proquest

I feel like I've been learning a lot so far! I am excited for this new exercise.

I thought that I would do a search on the Hunger Games.  I have students ask for it almost everyday and our waiting list is extensive.  On my initial search request, I found articles from scholarly journals, trade journals, magazines, and newspapers.  The scholarly journals were what I expected - literary reviews.  The Horn Book Review was often cited as a trade journal.

I posted to Electronic Resources Edition: Part 2, but when I hit publish, a drop down asked for profile. I chose Google account and all my typing was gone. Ugh! My main comments were that my inner nerd was also thrilled to see access to all sorts of publications. 

When I clicked on the Publications tab, there were over 3800 publications! Yowza!  I tried to type in science as my search request, but found that I needed to be more specific as it pulled any title with science in it, including political science and computer science. When I narrowed it down to Biology, I found the search to be more manageable.  I clicked on The American Biology Teacher.  I even e-mailed myself one of the articles from the latest issue about using postage stamps to teach science.  I just did a postage stamp project and one of my students claimed it was a little archaic considering the decline of snail mail.  I'll be forwarding him that article ;)