searching+Infotrac

toc Those of you who used Infotrac for your Fahrenheit 451 essays will remember how to access and use the database. For those of you who didn't, remember getting onto the databases for the Reformers Project? Today we'll be using the same database access, but the database Infotrac, which might be new to you.

Infotrac is a paid-database housing articles from hundred of periodicals, journals, newspapers, websites and reference sources. Searching Infotrac allows you to search all the resources at once, which saves you time and makes it easier.

To get to Infotrac: go to Databases and click on Infotrac Jr. Editi on You can search Infotrac by **keyword** or **subject**.
 * A **keyword** search will take you to all the articles where your word appears anywhere in the record of the article (that could be the content, description, title, author's name, etc.).
 * Searching by **subject** will break your topic into subcategories and help you organize your search.
 * Subject** search is also really good if you're doing a topic that is very broad or has a lot of different areas. When you do a subject search it will give you a link to a list of **subdivisions** which will help break down the topic into something specific.

For example: when I searched for Global Warming, I got 1614 periodical (magazine) results and 159 newspaper results. I also saw that there were 53 subdivisions and when I clicked on that, I was able to focus my topic to //Health Aspects// of Global Warming, and then I only had 14 results, which were a lot more manageable!

Citing Sources:
It is important to give credit to the article you are taking notes from and to know the appropriate way to do so. You don't have to mention Infotrac when writing your bibliography, just the actual article you used.

Article citing format: Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Article Title." **Publication Title** date (day, month, year): page number.

For example, I used the article "Feeling the Heat" from an issue of //Time for Kids//. Everything I needed to cite the information was in the article's record, which looked like this:



My bibliography looked like this: Satterfield, Kathryn. "Feeling the Heat." __Time for Kids__ 12 Jan 2007: 4.

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