Your Research Handbook Union 8 th Grade Center 6501 S Garnett Rd., Broken Arrow, OK 74012 Tracy Keeley, Librarian keeley.tracy@unionps.org This handbook was prepared to help you navigate the Library Catalog online, Noodletools, Internet web sites, and EBSCO. Please contact me if you have any questions. Thanks Logging in to school computers and using the Library Catalog 1. Your school computer login username is your last name, up to 11 characters, followed by a dot (.) then your first name, up to six characters, followed by the day of the month when you were born (no dot between first name and date). For example mine would be keeley.tracy23, because my last name is Keeley, my first name is Tracy and my birthday is May 23 rd. Your password is your full id number (5 digits no 00 at the start). 2. Open Internet Explorer. The web address for Union Public Schools is http://www.unionps.org. Change www to destiny so that it reads http://destiny.unionps.org and press Enter. 3. Select 8 th Grade Center from the schools listed. 4. You may search for the Title, Author, Subject, Series title of a book or related web sites or just let Keyword find everything related to your word(s). Finding Useful Internet Sites for Research The school s computers automatically search Google for you when you type a search in the Address box. When you locate possible web sites, consider these following criteria: o Authority does the site explain how the contributors know about the topics they address are they experts in the field? o Reliability do you find out how they found their information (references or citations); can you be sure it cannot be easily altered like a Wiki site can be? o Bias do the contributors to the web site feel very strongly one way or the other about the topic do they show a balanced viewpoint?
o URL endings --.edu = college or university (good choice);.gov = governmental agency (good choice);.com = commercially supported web site (someone is advertising something check for the above);.org = non-profit organization (no advertisement check for the above);.net = networked computer like yours at home would be (no reliability at all);.k12 = Kind. 12 th grade school system (you might be reading what a 3 rd grader wrote) If you want to find Ms. Keeley s recommended websites, click the Visual Tab in the Library Catalog and use the icons to navigate to her selections. How to use EBSCO for Online Magazine and Newspaper Articles 1. Go to this web address: http://search.ebscohost.com be sure not to put www in front of this address. 2. If you are prompted to enter a used ID and password, the User ID is union and the password is redskins. 3. When the site opens, choose Student Research Center. 4. When the webpage opens: Determine what types of documents you would like to include in your search. (Magazines, newspaper, books/encyclopedias, etc) Uncheck the boxes under the document types you DO NOT want to include in your search. You may want to search all document types, however, this will increase your search results and work! 5. In the search box type keywords for a search for your topic. EBSCO searches the titles of articles and the abstract (an abbreviated version of the article) for your words, so be careful with spelling and try words you think authors might use. For example, try teen, teenage, youth or adolescent for similar articles. 6. Click on the name of any of the articles in the list to see them one at a time. Read the abstract to see if the article will give you information you can use. 7. For Linked Full Text articles and PDF Full Text articles, you will need to click on the link to that text which is on the left. 8. Arrow back and forth and try many article titles or different search words until you find something about your topic. Keep trying! 9. When you are ready to cite you article in Noodletools, click on the words Detailed Record to find your citation information.
Getting Started in Noodletools 1. Go to Internet Explorer. 2. Type noodletools.com into the address box and Search or Enter. 3. Click on: 4. If you used Noodletools last school year, simply sign in using your firstname.lastname as your Personal ID (or possibly last.first) and your school ID # as your Password. Then, skip to step 7, validate your information on file and then go to step 10. 5. If you are unable to login or have not used Noodletools before, click on Create a Personal ID. 6. Leave the settings and click Register. 7. Ask the librarian for your School/Library Username and your School/Library Password. Fill those in and then, click Sign In. 8. Fill in the following: a. Expected year of graduation: choose your year from the drop down list b. Personal ID: Fill in your firstname.lastname c. Password: Your student ID # (just like your computer login). d. Retype the same password. e. Initials: the first letter of your first and last names f. Phone: the last four digits of your phone number (or 0000) 9. Then, click Register. 10. On the right hand side of the screen, click. 11. When the next screen comes up, the Citation style is MLA and the Citation level is Advanced click in the bubbles next to those two items. And then put a title for your list in the box labeled Description. 12. Click on Create Project. 13. You will be directed to your Dashboard for this project. 14. Click Bibliography. Then use the following how to pages to start adding citations for books, encyclopedias, websites and magazine and newspaper articles. To return to your project after the first time, simply sign in to Noodletools using the information you used to create your personal ID. Click on the name of your project and then you will be back to step 17 above.
HOW TO CITE BOOKS On the Works Cited screen, select Book from the drop-down list where it says <Select a citation type> and then click Create Citation. 1. Explore the next screen if you wish, or click Continue. 2. Then, under the tab labeled Print you will see boxes to enter the following (the information for these are all on the front or back of the title page of the book) and are the only information you need to enter: a. Contributors(s) this is talking about the author(s) of your book. i. Select Author from the dropdown labeled Role. ii. Type the author s first and last names (be sure to capitalize these) into the boxes with those labels. If your author has a middle name or initial, put it in; if not leave the box blank. A suffix is Jr. or II your author most likely doesn t have a suffix so you may leave that blank if it s not given. iii. To add another author, click the link that says Add another author. Add as many authors as you have on the title page. b. Title of the book or multivolume work: Type the title of the book be sure to capitalize important words in the title. c. Title of volume in multivolume set (if individually titled): In most cases, you will not have a separate title for a volume of a multivolume work so you may leave that box blank. d. Publisher: the company which published your book. e. Publication city: use the first one in the list if more than one city is on the title page. f. Publication year: Copyright year g. You don t have to put an edition or series name if your book doesn t have those just leave them blank h. Annotation: you don t put anything there unless your teacher has told you to annotate. 3. When you have filled in these citation boxes, scroll to the bottom and click Submit.
HOW TO CITE ENCYCLOPEDIAS On the Works Cited screen, select Reference Source (Dictionary, Encyclopedia, etc.) from the drop-down list where it says <Select a citation type> and then click Create Citation. 1. Explore this screen if you wish, or click Continue. 2. Then, under the tab labeled Print you will see boxes to enter the following information a) Author(s) of the article/entry a. The author s name will be located at the end of the article in small print or right under the title of the article. b. If no author is given, you may leave this blank. b) Article /entry title: If the articles in your reference source are in alphabetical order, please check the box which says Alphabetically arranged entries. c) Pages: starting page and ending page of the article. d) Contributors to the reference source as a whole: Fill this in if the title page of your source gives an author or editor (and choose which one he/she is in front of the names). e) Type of reference source: usually an encyclopedia. f) Title of encyclopedia: probably you will also check the box next to This is a well-known, widely-used reference work. g) Fill in the Year probably found on the outside (on the spine) of the encyclopedia. You may leave the rest of the boxes blank. h) Annotation: you don t put anything there unless your teacher has told you to annotate. 3. When you have filled in your citation boxes, scroll to the bottom and click Submit.
HOW TO CITE WEB SITES On the Works Cited screen, select Web Site from the drop-down list where it says <Select a citation type> and then click Create Citation. 1. Explore this screen if you wish, or click Continue. 2. Under the Web Site tab, please fill in the following: a. Name of the Web site: This is whatever is at the top of the text of the web site you are viewing not the web address (URL) in the address box. You must put information in this box to create a citation. b. Most recent date of access (M,D,YYYY) Leave this set on today s date. c. URL: This is the web address which will send your teacher to the exact webpage you used for research. Copy and paste this from your web site. The information below should be filled in if your web site gives you this information, but may be left blank if it can t be located on the web site. d. Publisher of the site -- is the name of the group who sponsored the website look for this especially if you have no author. But if it is the same as the name of the website like National Geographic, only list it once in the Name of Web site location. e. Date of e-publication: will be at the bottom of the website if it only gives a Copyright year, that is all you need to put in this field. f. Contributor(s): This is filled in if an author s name is listed either at the top of text or at the very bottom. Select the role from the dropdown list also. g. Web Page or document/article title: if there is a separate article title for your information, e.g., the name of the website could be PBS and the page or article might be Annie Oakley. But if only one name is listed, put it in the Name of Web site location. 3. When you have filled in your citation boxes, scroll to the bottom and click Submit.
HOW TO CITE ONLINE JOURNALS, MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS On your EBSCO screen, click Detailed Record to find the information you will need for your citation. On the Works Cited screen, select Journal, Magazine or Newspaper or Newswire from the drop-down list where it says <Select a citation type> and then click Create Citation. If EBSCO says your article came from Newspaper Source, you have a Newspaper; or the source indicates it is a Journal, you have a Journal; otherwise you may cite anything else as a Magazine. 1. Explore this screen if you wish, or click Continue. 2. Find the tab which says Database and click there. 3. Fill in the following information: a. Name of the database --labeled Database: for you at the bottom of your EBSCO citation box -- such as Newspaper Source or MAS Ultra. Once you start typing in this box, a drop down list will appear and you can find your database in the list and click on it. b. You may skip the Database accession number. c. Most recent date of access (M,D,YYYY) Leave this set on today s date. d. URL on the right side of the EBSCO screen, click Permalink to get the URL you must copy and paste into your citation. DO NOT use the URL in the address box above e. Article Author(s): if authors are not listed you may leave this blank. f. Article title: this is located at the top of the EBSCO screen not labeled. g. Page numbers: this is located on the line with the Source in EBSCO do not put p or pg in the box for this. h. Name of newspaper/magazine: look for the title right after Source: on your EBSCO screen. i. Publication date -- look right after the name of the magazine/newspaper (Source) for this information 4. When you have filled in these boxes, scroll to the bottom and click Submit If you located your article somewhere other than the EBSCO online database, please ask Ms. Keeley for help with your citation.
HOW TO PRINT A WORKS CITED PAGE IN NOODLE TOOLS: OR PREPARE TO COPY IT TO A POWERPOINT SLIDE OR OTHER PUBLICATION 1. On the Internet, type noodletools.com in the address box and hit Enter. 2. Click on Current Users: Sign In. 3. Log on to your Noodle Tools folder you re My Projects page will open. 4. Click on the name of the project; then click on Bibliography to open your Works Cited Page. 5. Print your Works Cited page when all your citations are completed: a. Click on Print/Export and select the option which says Print/Export to Word. b. Click on the link that says click here. c. Choose Open. d. Then, if your teacher would like you to add a header, go to Insert in the toolbar and click Header add whatever header your teacher would like. e. Your Works Cited page will be ready to print or copy into PowerPoint or Publisher.
SAMPLE WORKS CITED PAGE FROM NOODLETOOLS Works Cited Brunier, Serge. Solar System Voyage. New York: Cambridge University, 2002. Print. Carl Sagan. Solar System Exploration. NASA, 2 Aug. 2010. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. <http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/profile.cfm?code=saganc>. Davidson, Bill. TEEN-AGE DRINKING. Saturday Evening Post 10 Apr. 1965: 23-27. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 23 Feb. 2011. <http://search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&an=18947678&site=ehost-live>. Hamilton, Calvin J. Views of the Solar System. N.p., 2010. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. <http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm>. Johnson, Danza. Teen queen warns about underage drinking. Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal [Tupelo, MS] 31 Dec. 2010: n. pag. Newspaper Source Plus. Web. 23 Feb. 2011. <http://search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx?direct=true&db=n5h&an=2w63679624978&site=ehost-live>. Livingston, Jennifer A, et al. Can parents prevent heavy episodic drinking by allowing teens to drink at home? Addictive Behaviors Dec. 2010: 1105-1112. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 Feb. 2011. <http://search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=53794322&site=ehost-live>. Pasachoff, Jay M. Solar System. World Book. 2004. Print. Planets of Wonder: a Treasury of Space Opera. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1976. Print. Ride, Sally, and Tam O Shaughnessy. Exploring our Solar System. New York: Crown, 2003. Print.