Student Research Center
Student Research Center
Grades: 6+ | Subject(s): All | Overall rating: 10
EBSCOhost’s Student Research Center is an incredible resource for student researchers, and is one of the favorite sources cited by our English/Language Arts department. We actually have a direct link to it from our Library/Media Center webpage.
My favorite aspect of this site is the color and the attempt to create an index that is user-friendly. Most (if not all) indexes I have used have been black text on a white background with little or no images. This site looks like something a student might be interested to use. It takes all the great features of an index and creates a different interface focused on the user’s experience.
There is a sign-in feature where students can create an account to store reference articles for later use. The user can search using a basic or advanced search, search by topic, or view a list of titles. Another helpful feature is the ability to include sources from magazines, newspapers, books, encyclopedias, biographies, radio and television news transcripts, country reports, state/province reports, primary source documents, photos, maps, flags, film, and/or video. The really helpful feature with the Student Research Center is the inclusion of pictures to help interpret each source type. This would be incredibly helpful for our struggling learners or our students who are learning to speak and read English.
For this project, I selected Careers for my topic, education for the subtopic, and searched for “librarian.” 112 results were presented and I could sort my results by relevance or by date. I could filter the results by source type, subject, or publication. Additionally, I could add this search to my folder or create a link directly to the search results. When I clicked on a title, the basic citation information was listed along with an abstract and the Lexile score for the article. I also had the options to read the article in HTML or PDF format and options to print, email, save, and export the article’s citation information.
I think this is an incredible resource for teen researchers and for someone who has never completed a research project before. It’s easy and fun to use.
Source:
Whelan, D. (May 2003). The only young school librarian. School Library Journal, 49(5). Retrieved from http://ts.isil.westga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=9689315&site=src-live.
Grades: 6+ | Subject(s): All | Overall rating: 10
EBSCOhost’s Student Research Center is an incredible resource for student researchers, and is one of the favorite sources cited by our English/Language Arts department. We actually have a direct link to it from our Library/Media Center webpage.
My favorite aspect of this site is the color and the attempt to create an index that is user-friendly. Most (if not all) indexes I have used have been black text on a white background with little or no images. This site looks like something a student might be interested to use. It takes all the great features of an index and creates a different interface focused on the user’s experience.
There is a sign-in feature where students can create an account to store reference articles for later use. The user can search using a basic or advanced search, search by topic, or view a list of titles. Another helpful feature is the ability to include sources from magazines, newspapers, books, encyclopedias, biographies, radio and television news transcripts, country reports, state/province reports, primary source documents, photos, maps, flags, film, and/or video. The really helpful feature with the Student Research Center is the inclusion of pictures to help interpret each source type. This would be incredibly helpful for our struggling learners or our students who are learning to speak and read English.
For this project, I selected Careers for my topic, education for the subtopic, and searched for “librarian.” 112 results were presented and I could sort my results by relevance or by date. I could filter the results by source type, subject, or publication. Additionally, I could add this search to my folder or create a link directly to the search results. When I clicked on a title, the basic citation information was listed along with an abstract and the Lexile score for the article. I also had the options to read the article in HTML or PDF format and options to print, email, save, and export the article’s citation information.
I think this is an incredible resource for teen researchers and for someone who has never completed a research project before. It’s easy and fun to use.
Source:
Whelan, D. (May 2003). The only young school librarian. School Library Journal, 49(5). Retrieved from http://ts.isil.westga.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=9689315&site=src-live.