Task 10 Explore Research Databases

Task 10

For Task 10, I watched the EBSCO basic search tutorial.

Then I went to Masterfile Premier to search for an article in Consumer Reports. The product I search was vacuum cleaners. I limited by date, Aug. - Oct. 2009. The search showed other terms I could also search by. The search gave me 2 hits with good information. The first was an article from Consumer Reports, which contained contained a text article, chart, graph, and photos.

The second hit was from Canada Extra. It contained 5 charts and other search terms to try. Both contained valuable information which would be helpful to use in making a decision about which vacuum cleaner a person might purchase.


For the second part of Task #10, I searched Biography Resource Center. I used Jimmy Buffet for my search for a musician. I got results for 6 articles. The first article contained a biographical essay as a music writer, a book writer, updates of his music, personal information, works that he has written, career information and the citations for those sources. This source was from "Contemporary Musicians". The other articles were from: "Contemporary Popular Writers", "Contemporary Southern Writers", "Newsmakers", "St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture", and "Contemporary Authors Online".

There were also entries in "Brief Biographies", "Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians", "Writer's Directory, 25th Ed.", and "Almanac of Famous People, 9th Ed." There were 161 articles in newspapers and magazines, and 2 websites. His website, www.margaritaville.com has the most extensive biographical, and personal information about him.



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