Please answer the following questions using Academic Search Premier.  Click on Edit Page and enter the password library.  Enter your name and email address.  Be sure to uncheck the box to receive notifications.  Type your answer below each question.  When finished, click Save.

 

For this exercise, pretend you are doing research on the salaries of professional athletes.

 

1. Do a search for professional athletes.  Do not set any limits.  How many results do you get?

 

 4410

 

 

2. Do a new search for "professional athletes," making sure to put the term in quotation marks.  How many results do you get this time?

 

 1319

 

 

3. Add salaries to your search.  How many results do you get now?

 

 46

 

 

4. Look at the full record for the first article in the list.  Type the name of the article and a sentence or 2 on what the article is about.

 

 "Groupie Love" : The article is about professional athletes and their search for lasting commitment. Women are only with athletes for the money and their access to clubs.

 

 

5. Return to your list of results.  Find a scholarly/academic article in the list.  Type the title of the article and explain how you know it is scholarly.  List 3 reasons.  "We clicked on Academic Journals" and "We limited to peer review" are not acceptable reasons.

 

 "Science and Medicine in the 21st Century

1. From the Institute of Medicine

2. Authors names are present

3. Has no pictures.

 

 

6. Type 1 or 2 synonyms or related terms for professional athletes and salaries.  How did you come up with these terms?  (Hint: Subjects, Thesaurus, brainstorming)

Professional athletes synonyms: stars,

Salaries synonyms: earnings, income

 

 

 

 

 

7. Could you truncate professional athletes, salaries, or any of the synonyms from question 6?  (You could.)  Pick one term and type the truncated term below.

 

 

 Salaries= salary*

 

 

8. If the full text of an article you want is not available in Academic Search Premier, what would you do?

 

 

 Look in another database and if it is still not available, you can submit a request to get the article from another library.

 

 

 

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