Databases
How To Access Library Databases
You may be asked to log in when conducting your research. Your username and password is the same as your Moodle and EMPOWER login. This is the same for the library's desktop computers.
How to Access Library Databases from the JC Website:
Recording #4.mp4
Sample Database Search:
Persuasive Speech
Are you searching for information to use in a Persuasive Speech?
Here is how to use the Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints!
1. Select Library Databases from the Library course on Moodle or the library page on the JC website.
2. Then select TexShare (Enter your JC login and password and hit enter).
3. Change college: select Jacksonville College on the left side of the page.
4. Select Letter "G" for Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints.
5. Select, Gale Databases.
6. Select Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints.
7. Search your topic: For example, "Fake News on Social Media".
8. Select viewpoints.
Congratulations!
You have done your first database search in
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints is only one of the many databases available to students through the Norman Library at Jacksonville College.
How to Conduct a Boolean Search
Gale Databases
Gale Books and Authors
This video will walk you through the Books and Authors database.
Opposing Viewpoints
This video demonstrates how to conduct a search in the Opposing Viewpoints database.
Literature Resource Center
This video explains how to conduct a search in the Literature Resource Center database.
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