Exercise 8         

1.  Your topic is "should women who abuse drugs during pregnancy be prosecuted?"  Use Boolean connectors and truncation to form your search.

    Your  search in Ebsco is:

2 . Suppose you are researching the following question: "What are the effects of post traumatic stress disorder on women in combat?" However, you want to exclude from your results articles pertaining to rape incidents.

    Your search in Ebsco is:

    Now limit your results to full-text articles

    Next, limit it further to scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles

3. You may not want to believe it, but maggots have squirmed their way to modern medicine!!!  Find an article that discusses the use of maggot therapy!

   Which EBSCO database is the best to use to find information on this health related topic?

    Your search is:

4. Your friend told you the other day about an article published in the magazine "Ms." that discusses the use of prisoners to make profits by the Federal Prison Industries Inc.!  You really want to find this article

          a. Your search is:

          b. What is the title of the article ?

          c. Is there an author?

          d. How long is the article?

e.  is this a magazine or journal article?

          f. Your friend told you that there is no problem getting this article at COCC. How would you get it?

5. There is this great article on what science says about "love." The author of the article is Shannon Brownlee.

a. How did you find the article? What was your search?

b. What’s the article title?

c. How long is it?

d. What's the name of the journal it was published in?

d. Can you email the article to yourself?