How to access articles on the LLC databases

You can access a wide variety of scholarly digital articles through the Library Learning Commons for use in research.

1. Go to https://amdsb.follettdestiny.ca/ and click on Listowel District Secondary School. Log in using your regular school login and password.

2. Click on Knowledge Ontario - GALE Database.

3. Log in to GALE using the password trillium.

4. Go to "Cross Search" then "Gale Power Search." 

5. Type in your search terms. 

Search term tips for best results: 

• Use single words or short phrases. If you type in a sentence or question like you might in Google, it will find only articles that use that exact phrase. Think about the key words, eg. plagiarism, students, prevention

• Use and to combine keywords and phrases 

          - china and history and art

          - Canada and foreign policy

• Use truncation (an asterisk) and wildcards (usually a question mark or exclamation point).

           - child* and education and France (brings up child, children, childhood, and any other word that starts with the root "child.")

           - prevent* and plagiarism 

           - globali?ation (brings up items with the words globalization or globalisation)

• Use the word OR inside parentheses.

       - (AIDS or HIV) and (television or movies or motion pictures)

       - (teen* or adolescen*) and (girl* or female) and aggression.

• Use your results to broaden or narrow your search.

6. Ask a librarian for help if you are having trouble.