Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Infotrac

The BPS pays for student access to Infotrac. It is advisable that you familiarize yourself with using a database as you will do much college research in this medium. Here are some advantages to using this database:
  1. hundreds of thousands of articles from magazines, reputable journals, newspapers, and other sources.
  2. search terms are not limited or blocked
  3. articles have been reviewed to ensure accuracy
When you use Infotrac, you have to choose a different citation form on the Citation Machine. Choose "Work from a Subscription Service Accessed through a Library - one or more authors
Author
." It is under "Non-print" but you must choose to view more sources.