Lesson 5
Proquest
1. My topic was Vietnam and PTSD. There are 4206 articles on the subjects. I skimmed a couple articles and they looked to be very thorough. They were from The American Journal of Psychiatry which would be a reliable source. Once again I can see how useful this would be for research in high school. The teacher would not have to be concerned with whether his/her students were looking at articles that are not reliable.
1a. I looked at the Library Queen's post and discovered that she had researched Diabetes which is a topic very personal for her. She states that she found the article very useful.
2. I looked up libraries and then refined the search to ebooks in libraries. I looked at an article about Detente in New York on ebooks. It was an article about a discussion at ALA about ebook lending in the library. The discussion included officers of ALA and representatives of publishing companies.
Proquest is an excellent resource for students looking up information. I hear about many teachers who require students to use Proquest for their research project.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post,
Julie