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Week Five

Advanced Periodicals and Evaluating Periodicals
Friday Classes

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Assignments Readings & Resources for the upcoming week
Required
class pack readings
  1. BC Library Search Tools Comparison (p. 42)
     
  2. Gale Expanded Academic: Browse Subject Search (p. 36)
     
  3. Useful Subdivisions in Gale Expanded Academic (p. 37)
     
  4. Elements of a Citation and More: Gale Expanded Academic (p. 38)
     
  5. Serials Solutions (p. 43)
     
  6. Evaluating Books and Journal Articles (p. 27)
     
  7. How to Decode Magazines for Libraries (p. 41)

Workbook
exercises
(optional)
  1.  Periodical Databases: Gale Expanded Academic (p. 60)
     
  2. Advanced Periodicals Worksheet (p. 61)
     
Helpful websites

Gale Expanded Academic
http://rpa.kccd.cc.ca.us/rpa/webauth.exe?lb=bcl&rs=bcinfotrac

Serials Solutions
http://wk3zv5xd8x.search.serialssolutions.com/

Evaluation of  Print Sources (BC Library)
http://www.bakersfieldcollege.org/library/qualify.asp

Essential
Reference 
Books

LaGuardia, Cheryl, ed.  Magazines for Libraries.  (various editions) New Providence, NJ: Bowker.  [Reference Index Area: Ref Z6941.M23]

Due next week
  1. Advanced Databases & Evaluating Periodical Sources
     
  2. Keywords and Search Statements (Nancy Guidry's class only)
     

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