Using the Library Database as a Resource & Easiteach Tips & Tricks #6: Making Tutorials

I recently found out that if you have a library card you can use the database at your local library. This means you have access to tons and tons of academic journals and magazines online for all your learning and research needs. This works for those of you researching for fun or trying to get your masters/PhD, but guess what? This also works for those of you wanting to teach your students better researching skills; especially if you want them to be COLLEGE READY. The best part, IT CAN BE ACCESSED ONLINE, you don't even have to go to the library.

Here is where you go (for those of you in San Antonio), mysapl.org and click on database:

Next you will see the advanced search boxes. Scroll down and you will see the journals it may browse through. You are free to browse the individual journals yourself, or you may use the advanced search and click on the journals you wish it to search through. A tip the librarian gave me was that when you select the "select all" option it does not actually look through every journal because some of the journals become incompatible with each other during the search process. She recommended that you only choose 2 or 3 at a time. Here is what you will see when you click on the data base tab into the advanced search:

I hope this helps your in class and out of class needs. If you wish to learn how I made the images on Easiteach here is the tutorial: