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Name: ______________________________

In this exercise, you will use each of the internet research tools you have learned about in IVY-072 to find information of interest to you.

1. Encyclopedias  (Use Britannica Online.)

a. Find an article on a famous dead person of interest to you. Name of famous person: _______________________________________

b.Famous person’s date of birth: ____________ date of death: ___________

c.Interesting fact you discovered about this person ________________________________________________________________

2. EBSCOhost

a. Find an article about a topic of interest (other than the one you used for the previous EBSCO exercise).

b. Keywords you typed in to represent your topic: _____________________

c.Title of article: _______________________________________________

d. Author: _____________________________________________________

e. Magazine/Journal/Newspaper Title: ______________________________

f. Date of article: _______________________________________________

3. Dogpile

a. Use Dogpile to locate a website about a place you would like to go on vacation.

b. Keywords you typed in: _______________________________________

c. Name of website: ____________________________________________

d. URL of website: _____________________________________________

e. Interesting fact you discovered about this place:__________________________________

4. IvyLynks Program Links

a. Go to Program Links and select the Ivy Tech program in which you are enrolled or in which you are most interested.

b. Name of Ivy Tech program you selected: __________________________

c. Select 2 websites in your program area of interest to you. d. Name of website #1: __________________________________________

e. URL of website #1: ___________________________________________

f. Interesting information you discovered at website #1: __________________________________________________

g. Name of website #2: __________________________________________

h. URL of website #2: ___________________________________________

i. Interesting information you discovered at website #2: _________________________________________________________

5. ebrary

a. Locate a book in ebrary on a topic of interest to you.

b. Keywords you used in a search of ebrary: ____________________________

c. Title of book obtained with this search: ________________________________________________

d. Author: _____________________________________________________

e. Date of publication: ___________________________________________

f. Name of chapter in book which looks most interesting to you: _____________________________________________

6. ProQuest

a. Keywords you used for a search in ProQuest: _________________________

b. Title of article retrieved with this search: ________________________________________________

c. Author: ______________________________________________________

e. Date of publication: ____________________________________________

09/27/2005

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