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Library Study SetYou need an online version of the full text of an article from a specific journal and you
cannot find it doing an article or Discovery search. What should you do? - answer Do a
search for the databases the journal is found in using the Journals tab on the library
home page. Then try to find the article by searching through one or more of those
databases.
Many government documents are available on the Web. To help you find the
documents you need, Hofstra University Library offers information: - answer in both the
Government Information Guide and through searches using the Discovery tab
Articles in print are located - answer on the ground floor of the Axing Library
To find specific articles in newspapers, magazines and journals, use the Journals tab to
search. - answer False
You can access the Library's research databases even when you are not on campus -
answer True
If you want to get videos, you can go to - answer the Film and Media Library. In some
cases you can simply stream them.
You can borrow books from the Hofstra Law Library if - answeryou are a Hofstra
student.
To borrow a book, you must - answercheck it out at the circulation desk.
Books you can borrow from the library are located in - answerthe stacks.
If you need to find an article from a magazine, and you find that there is no online
version of the issue you want, what should you do first? - answerSearch using the
Journals tab to see if there is a print or microform copy of the issue.
If you have a research question and would like help from a professional librarian, you
can go to - answerthe reference desk, use chat or make an appointment with a
reference librarian.
If you specifically need to find books on a subject, which of the following is the most
efficient way to look? - answerSearch using the Books/eBooks tab (which searches our
catalog of books).
, You can obtain the online articles the Hofstra Library offers by using which two of the
following? - answerDiscovery tab search
Research Databases.
The Journals search is intended to find useful information when you type in the titles of
articles. - answerFalse
If you have the title of an article you can use the Articles search tab to locate the full text
if we have it in one of our databases. The following question is intended to give you
some practice doing an Articles search.
Goal: Find the article entitled "Picturing the city: young people's representations of
urban environments" in Children's Geographies,volume 8, number 2 (2010).
1. Go to the Library home page click on the Articles tab (see link to the Library home
page below).
2. Type in the name of the article (not the journal) and click the Search button.
3. Click on the "View Full Text" link in the first entry. Then, on the new page, click on the
"Pdf Full Text" link.
The last phrase in the main text of this article is - answerin our four countries
To find out which databases contain New York Times articles, go to the Journals tab on
the home page for the Hofstra Library (see link below), type in the name of the
newspaper and click the search button. There will be two pages of listings, most of
which are irrelevant since the search engine used is not especially precise in selecting
items. To see which databases carry the New York Times look only at the items with the
phrase "New York Times" without anything else in the title and "eJournal, eMagazine"
underneath. Click on the title links to access the database information on the right side
of the screen.
Which of the following databases does not include the full text of New York Times
articles? - answerAcademic Search Ultimate
In some databases, you will find that some articles are listed but there is no direct link to
the complete text. This question is intended to give you practice with Sociological
Abstracts, a sociology database in which you use "Find Article" to see if Hofstra
students and faculty have access to the full text.
1. Using either the Discovery or the Articles tab, click on the "Browse databases by A-Z
or Subject " link on the Library home page just below the Search box on the upper left
(see link to Library home page below). Next click on "S" and then find the link for the
Sociological Abstracts database and click on it. You will now be in that database. In the
search box type in "child labor and India". Limit the search to "Peer reviewed" and
"Scholarly journals".
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