Online Databases
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The document provides instructions for searching the Thomson Gale's Biography Resource Center database. It outlines how to perform simple searches on the home page, narrow results using biographical facts like occupation, browse broader categories to find people, and use the advanced search options like date ranges and Boolean operators. It also explains how to view brief biographies for quick facts, save selected items to a mark list for later reference, and access automatically generated citations.
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Online Databases
- 2. Thomson Gale’s Biography Resource Center
- 4. Simple search on Home page. Many results.
- 5. Narrow your search using the Biographical Facts Search feature.
- 7. Filling in the Occupation field reduces the number of results.
- 8. List of available Occupation Terms
- 9. Or browse using broader categories.
- 11. Pick a category.
- 12. Pick a person.
- 13. Advanced Search Options Choose a date range. Use operators.
- 14. Results! Grayed tabs = no information of that type available For quick facts start with Brief Biographies.
- 15. Click the box beside items you wish to save.
- 16. To see your list of saved items click on View Mark List.
- 17. Mark List showing saved items.
- 18. To see citations for the articles you have selected click here.
- 19. Citations are done for you.