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The 3 things that were most useful to during this semester on how to do research was using AND/OR to target a specific info I wanted out of it. Another thing was how to evaluate source whether they were scholarly or not. Lastly, was how to use the advanced search on databases and such to make my search more refined. These were one of the few that were most useful for me to use during the whole semester.

• I wish we could of discussed more about peer-reviewed articles and such, I didn’t really fully understand how to identify it till I found out that there was an option for it.

D: DOAL>>>Directory of Open Access Journals is used for multiple searches on various subjects such as mathematics, English, Sciences. and so on. This database offers only journals and articles based on your searches. From the looks of it, there’s also a segment for a controlled vocabulary search. I don’t see any unique features, it’s pretty much shows similar formats from any other regular databases.

M: MathSciNet>>> Is used primarily for math related subjects. It offers a wide variety of information mostly from textbooks and others from mostly articles/journals and such. It also has a controlled vocabulary search. The database has one or two unique features, one of them is that it has an option to choose where you want to get information from books, articles, journals, and such. Another is that you can choose a time period of which you want to look in.

The types of material you can find in the catalog are a list of books, references bases on your main search word in the browser. ~

The types of material that can’t be found are random lines of work that is written in the search browser of the site.~

Title: Flowers for Algernon
Author: Keyes, Daniel
Call Number: PS3561 .E769 F56 2004
Location: LaGuradia
Status: Regular loan