Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Week 10 EbscoHost Family of Databases and Ebsco eBooks

I decided to use the EBSCOhost MasterFile Premier, and looked for answers to my question, "what vegetables have calcium."   I found a lot of articles, and was happy to find one with answers that I wanted to hear.  I went to the "Article Linker" and found the entire article, just 2 more clicks away.  I found out that "many green, leafy vegetables are good sources of calcium -kale, collards, bok choy and turnip and mustard greens among them. Other leafy vegetables, particularly spinach and beet greens, though high in calcium, are not good dietary sources of the mineral: oxalic acid in these vegetables combines with the calcium to prevent its absorption by the body."  This is something I have been wondering about and glad to know about. 
    When I looked to see what others had said about this assignment, I found one blogger who was unimpressed with her findings about zinc, and another who went to the consumer edition of the Academic Search Complete, and found a lot of good information. She said she uses these databases all the time, and seemed very comfortable with them.  I was impressed, I bet she's a great librarian. 
  
   When looking at the eBooks, I searched for Palestine.  I didn't see where I could change it to keyword. I found 16 books, varying in scope.   Next, I looked up Constitution Day and found 15 titles, not one relating to the U.S.  I googled it to see when it is, and it was Sept. 17th.  Oh well, I wouldn't look at EBSCO eBooks for this.  
   I found a few books that were about the history of Nebraska. One was about the dust bowl, and the other was about Native Americans. 
    I believe this is the last week of our Marvel class and I am marvelling at all the information that is out there and hoping I will remember how to use some of it.


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