MAGNOLIA

To access the site from home you will need to click ACCESS RESOURCES FROM HOME (on the far right hand side of the home page) and enter a username/password. Your teacher or librarian can provide you with the username/password.

General research –

· try using just ONE of the following: MAS Ultra, Academic Search, or MasterFILE (you may want to add Newspaper Source depending on the type of sources you are seeking)

· Book Collection: Nonfiction

· Student Resource Center

o choose the TYPE of source you’re looking for

Controversial topics –

MELO
- Proceed on the Copiah page (at home use same password you use for MAGNOLIA)
- Click Opposing Viewpoints on the left
- Click your topic if you see if or enter it in the search box
- Notice your results are separated by tabs by type of source and
- You can narrow the results using the topics on the left
- Remember to use the print link or copy and paste into Word
from www.quitmanhighschoollibrary.com click REFERENCES, then at the bottom under SOCIAL ISSUES click MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARY, click your topic if listed

General science –

General Science Collection
Book Collection: Nonfiction
Academic Search Premier
MAS Ultra
Student Resource Center

Specific sciences – Select one or more databases related to your science field (ex.: Agrigola, Consumer Health Source,

Ebsco Animals, Environment Complete, etc.)

Newspaper articles only

Newspaper source
From www.quitmanhighschoollibrary.com select from the links at the bottom of the home page

Encyclopedias

Funk & Wagnalls listed with the databases
Encyclopedia Americana under “Grolier” on the main page of MAGNOLIA (Grolier cannot be accessed at home)
from www.quitmanhighschoollibrary.com click REFERENCES and choose Encarta or Columbia

Environmental issues – Environment Collection

Agriculture – Agricola

Biographies - Remember these are on MAGNOLIA (except for the last one)

Wilson Biographies (scroll down, it's toward the bottom left)
Encyclopedia Americana under “Grolier”
Funk and Wagnalls
History Reference Center
From www.quitmanhighschoollibrary.com click REFERNCES and try the links listed for “Biographies”

Literary

Literary Reference Center

***If you include an INDEX or ABSTRACT database in your search, checking FULL TEXT is very, very important. Index databases and abstract databases may or may NOT include full text articles.

*Keep in mind that the more databases you check, the more results you’ll get which is not necessarily a good thing!

Printing search results

Use the PRINT LINK or you MUST copy and paste into Word to print.