Welcome to COM 303 Guide
Welcome to COM 303 Library Resource Guide
This guide provides you brief information about resources that you need for your database research assignment.
Google v.s. Database
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Google
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Database
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Authority
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Varies
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Results can be broken down to scholarly
and popular articles
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Number
of Hits
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Huge
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More manageable
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Relevance
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Varies
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Much more reliable. Most results originally
appeared in print
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Sources
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Google Scholar does not provide a list of titles that are included in the search
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You can find a journal listing in any
database.
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Ability
to Rank Results
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Default ranking only
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Allow you to rank results by date, author,
source and relevance
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Search
Features
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Can only limit search by language and
document type
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Allow you to limit your search by subject
area, language, date, publication type, etc
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Search
Suggestion
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Will help you out when you have a typo
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Help you modify your search by providing similar or narrower subject terms on
the result listing page, as well as under each result
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Access
to information
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When you run into a result that was
originally published in a print media, you may be asked to pay for
access. Google Scholar will provide you access to some of these articles,
only because it is routing you back to library databases
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Free information for you, paid by the
library
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Reference/ILL Librarian |
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