Guide on the Side: Environmental Library Instruction -- Practice with EBSCO Single-Page View

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Click into the Academic Search Premier database, and let's perform some searches.

Off campus?

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Using the top search box, type in a search for prescribed burning and click Search.

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How many results did you get?

0-314 315-797 798-1,416 1,417 or more

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Refine your search by adding the term restoration in a second search box.

Let's narrow our search by finding articles that include information about both prescribed burning and restoration. Which Boolean operator would we use for this search?

AND OR NOT

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Next, refine your search by adding the term Michigan in a third search box.

Let's narrow our search by finding articles that excludes information about Michigan. Which Boolean operator would we use for this search?

AND OR NOT

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Use the Refine Results limiters to include resources published in 2008 or later with a source type of Academic Journals.

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Find the article Using Prescribed Burning to Restore Granite Rock Outcrop Ecotones in the Piedmont of the Southeastern United States and open the PDF Full Text file.

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Now, pull a citation for this article in APA and paste it in the box below.

Your APA Citation:

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