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• Most important things I learned this semester :

1. How to be more efficient in choosing the sources, and using library databases that will supply me with peer reviewed journals rather than sources that can be made by the public.

2. To always check the authors background information before citing or even using their work.

3. Developing a topic that will not be a yes or no answer or compare and contrast, but searching information before hand in order to create a research question or topic that will give a strong essay.

• I wish we had to spend a little more time on how  the usage of databases, it was a little brief.

• ‎”Google Introduces New Tool for Scholarly Research.” Associated Press [Mountain View] 18 Nov. 2004. . Web. 9 Nov. 2011.
• Golderman, Gail M., and Bruce Connolly. “Between the Book Covers: Going Beyond OPAC Keyword Searching with the Deep Linking Capabilities of Google Scholar and Google Book Search.” EBSCOhost – World’s Foremost Premium Research Database Service. MasterFILE Premier, 2004. Web. 09 Nov. 2011.
• “Google Launches Google Scholar.” Advanced Technology Libraries 33.12 (2004): 1, 11. Library Lit & Inf Full Text. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.
• Networking Y Comunidades En La Web Social. Tres Proyectos Para Mejorar La Comunicación. Universidad del País Vasco, 2009. Internet resource.
  

M- MarketResearch.com

• In this database it aims in the field of marketing so it would probably be used in a marketing class or any beginner business class.  This database is used by business professionals not only in America but around the globe since it provides research reports for over 2,000 industries in the world. It is mostly used  industry overviews, competitive analysis, market trends, product innovations, consumer behavior, and market share in industries in the Food Department to even Science and Technology.  Most of the results in this database are downloadable and using a PDF file containing not only information but images as well. In every report there is an abstract and a chapter of contents that will break the information into subtitles. However, there is no controlled vocabulary in the search. I never seen a database that will have a chapter of contents and I think that is very helpful when there is a report that is over 200 pages and your only interested in a certain topic in the field. It makes it very convenient for the uses when they want to skim through different topics.

P- Philisopher’s Index

• In this database, which you can tell from its name is used for philosophical information. This database will probably used for a philosophy class or any class along those lines like ethics. It is a database from EBSCOhost which mean that it will contain articles from scholarly journals, books, book chapters and book reviews. Yes, there is controlled vocabulary depending on your search and which field you choose when searching. If you specify in subject field, your world will be in the subject of every result. There isn’t anything really unique in this database since it is under EBSCOhost which is the center of many databases.

The kind of materials that can be found in a catalog is all the books that contain your word of search either in the description of the novel, the title of the novel or even in the author’s name. Also, in the catalog you can find the location, the call number, the status, and a description in a novel. In the catalog you can’t find the whole magazine and not even websites.  The novel I have searched is Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. The call number of this novel is PR2831. A2E94 2003. This book is found on the fifth floor. The status of a book is a regular loan.