Lesson 5

My search for Langston Hughes brought up numerous results. To the right of the screen the options allow the user to narrow by full text, peer reviewed, source type (scholarly journals, magazines, trade journals and newspapers), publication title (for a specific publisher), document type, subject (related to searches like his poetry or literary criticism), classification, company/organization, location, person (people he is compared to), tags and other languages, databases and publication date.  In the publication date graph it is interesting to see the changing opinion over time and how many articles are published over time. There is a choice of citation/abstract, full text, PDF, images, title, author and highlights of some of the search terms in the article. The articles appear to be well written. I was impressed. Of course, there is the usual option to save for later tools for research, email, print, save and export.

I searched “library” and twenty-nine different publications popped up.  I selected “The Electronic Library,” selected year, issue and so on to get to an issue and eventually to a list of articles. I selected from 2014 and it only gave me an abstract for the article. The full text is unavailable for a year, which disappointed me. It does, however, make sense so the publisher can make money from the article. It was very easy to navigate.