Please answer the following questions using Academic Search Premier.  Click on Edit Page and enter the password library.  Type your responses in the boxes provided.  When finished, click Save.

 

You are researching banned books in high schools.

 

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

 

634

 

 

 

2. Do a new search for "banned books."  Make sure to put the term in quotes.  How many results do you get this time?

 

232

 

 

 

3. Add high schools to your search.  How many results do you get this time?

 

15

 

 

 

4. Look at the full record for the first article in the list.  What is this article about?  Is it on topic?

 

This article is about a program about getting high school students to read more. It is not on topic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Just Open the Door: Banned Books (and a Librarian!) in the Classroom. Reasons why it is scholarly: 1. Journal is Young Adult Library Services. 2. Included academic journals in part of our search criterion. 3. It is mostly text.

 

 

 

6. How could you truncate one or both of your search terms?  Type the truncated search term(s).

 

You could truncate banned to ban*, as well as adding quotatino marks to high school.

 

 

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

 

Click the find another databade link. You could also do an inter-library loan.

 

 

 

 

 

8. Type 1 or 2 synonyms or related terms for banned books and high schools.  How did you come up with these terms?  (Hint: Subjects, Thesaurus, brainstorming)

 

Supressed Literature. Secondary School. We came up with these synonyms by brainstorming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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