Look at the top left corner of this page. Notice the white rectangle with a little icon of a magnifying glass (or a circle with a short line). This rectangle is called a search box. Many websites have it, and it can save you a lot of time.
Imagine that your professor tells you to a find scholarly article about a subject, but you are not sure what a scholarly article is. You think, Hmm...I wonder if IHE Library News has any information about that. You visit this website at www.ihelib.blogspot.com, type “scholarly article” in the search box, and click on the magnifying glass icon.
What do you see next? Three articles from the website appear. If your search went well, then these articles, especially the first one, answer all your questions about what a scholarly article is. Decide whether your search went well.
Look at the text in grey box above the articles:
| Showing posts sorted by relevance for query scholarly article. Sort by date Show all posts |
The search gave you the most relevant
results by looking for the words in the article, but the box gives you other
options. “Sort by date” allows you to see the most recent articles first, and
“Sort all posts” the most recent posts whether they mention “scholarly article” or not.
Other websites also use search boxes
and may give you the choice of searching by relevance or by date. When would you want to search by date instead of
relevance? You might do so if you are looking
for recently updated information, such as if you are following a news story or looking
for the newest job advertisements.
Try using the search box to look for other information. What do you find?
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