Competency #6: Databases

JSTOR

For my first search I used JSTOR and did a building block search. My search netted me 9,976 documents. Normally this would be way too many results and I would try to narrow the search by using a different type of search.


I did however find some useful ones including this one-



ERIC First Search

Next I used ERIC First Search to do a specific facet first search. When looking at my 3 facets-

Facet 1- Intellectual Freedom OR Banned Books OR Censorship
Facet 2 - High Schools OR Secondary Schools or Schools
Facet 3- Libraries

I decided that Facet 1 would give me the fewest results, so I searched it first and got 3,470 hits.
Then I searched Facet 2 and got 217,228 hits. Facet 3 got me 35,013 hits.

Here is a screen shot from my search of Facet 1.


Here is a shot of my search of Facet 2