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    what is General Reference Center Gold

    • an electronic index of: magazines, academic journals, books, news, multimedia

    • A database can be searched by:
      > keyword
      > subject
      > author
      > title
      > and be limited by year(s), etc.

    • Example:
      Keyword - monkey = 5,000 citations or references
      Subject - monkey = 980 citations   [ = is a better choice ]

      Author - Kayla Webley
      Title - Thailand: Orphaned Elephants

      < Advanced Search >

      Combining two or more terms into one search

        pet
            AND
        health

      Result (2,000) = 2,000 references are two many
      Narrow by date (25)
      < between > 25 June 2010 and 25 December 2010

      Expanding by truncation [ = Ctrl / N ] (30)
      = to combine singular , plural, or related terms into one search

      pet pet*

                         for the exercises click   <   here   >

    Wolfhard Touchard, M. L. S. Retired Reference & Database Librarian
    Andrews University - September 2010