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Database Skills Form

Please use the Learning Resource Center homepage as your starting point.

From the LRC's Articles tab, search one of the following article databases to find sources for your paper: InfoTrac, Academic Search Premier, Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL).




List 3-5 words (nouns) that are important to your topic. Think of some synonyms and related terms:


List the terms/words/phrases you entered to search your topic:

What other terms did you discover that you might use that relate to your topic? Try a few of these to compare the results:
Now limit to full text only and re-do your search. How many results did you get?

E-mail one of these articles to yourself. Write the citation information in the box using MLA style refering to the online version for help:

Explain how you would find those articles in the initial search that were not available full-text in this database:

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