Let S Take This in Steps

ExploringBiological SciencesInformationAvailable Through the Kean Library

Please team up with oneof your classmates to complete this worksheet.Make sure your team is ready to demonstrateits searching strategies toyour classmates on the SmartBoard!!

Let’s take this in steps:

Go to the EBSCOhost Research Databases; click EBSCOhost Web; select Academic Search Premier, Biological Abstracts, and Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive;then click Continue.

Search for scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles about CaM kinase II.

Databaseslike EBSCOhost sometimes provide a list of relevant subject headings, by which you can narrow your search results. Look for the Narrow Results by Subject box.If you click on any of the subject headings listed in this box, you will narrow your results down to a more focused set of articles. In this box you may also find ideas for search terms. List any subject headings that could possibly serve as alternative search terms:

Now let’s use your alternative search terms to try an Advanced Search. Click the blue Advanced Search button at the top of the screen. Type one or more of your alternative search terms in the first, second, or third search boxes. In the boxes to the right of the search boxes, change Select a Field (optional) to SU Subject Terms. Combine your search terms with Boolean operators (AND, OR) and utilize truncation symbols (*) when appropriate. What search statement did you type into the database?

Browse through the results list. Record the citation information for one relevant scholarly article that’s available in full-text format:
Some articles on the results list will NOT be available in full-text format through the databases. By clicking the TOUR button for such articles, you may be able to locate full text through one of the other library databases. Using the TOUR button, find a relevant article that’s available in full-text format through another database. Record the citation information for this article:

What database provides full-text access to this article?

What Kean library database provides access to the full-text article?

Click the database name to access the journal online; then use the date, volume number, issue number, and page numbers provided in the article citation above to track down the full-text article.

List the author name(s):