To compare the kinds of information different electronic resources provide, I once again searched for information about Dementia. This resulted in a listing of very recent scholarly articles about research into dementia which would be very helpful in researching for college level work, but probably not as useful for most lay people. It is wonderful that such a sophisticated resource is available for our patrons! It provided something quite different from the other resources we have looked at so far. It also had a generous number of articles about Paul Farmer and Greg Mortenson that were accessible reading, and quite suitable for middle school and high school kids.
I read Gentle Reader's Blog, which reminded me to share that when I first used Proquest, I didn't click the "full text documents only" and was very confused about how to get to the first article, as there was no way to read it... I also looked at Filia's "My Libary Blog" and enjoyed it.
In the Publications area, I searched for library journals and found 24. I was surprised when I searched for medical journals and found 38, somehow I expected many more with all their sub-specialties. However, when I searched for "dermatology" 5 different medical journals popped up, so like in all computer searches, it may be a matter of trying different search terms to get at what you really want.
So right, Saila, try different terms and see what you get. Remember that when you search the Publications tab, you are searching for words in journal titles. In the basic search, I find the Suggested Topics box above the results list helpful to hone my search. Your findings are very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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