http://capetechlibrary.jimdo.com
There is a description of each database on this page
Choose a database and type in your
search term
Your results appear in these tabs. This search has
46,337 magazines and 46 books for results.
Click on the advanced search tab to
refine your search. Type in additional
keywords and select documents with fu
text.
Choose dates. You can search before, on
after or between particular dates.
With my additional search keywords of recycling and art and
limits of full text and dates to search between, I have fewer
results to wade through.
Scroll down to “The Art of
Recycling” . This result
tells you the title, the
publication, the date, # of
pages and words in the
article, that it is full text,
has PDF pages you can look
at, is an essay, and has
pictures.
Click on the title to go to
the next screen.
This is the article.
Click on “View 2 PDF
pages” in the Tools
box on the right side
of the page.
This gives you the scanned in pages of the article just as
it appeared in the original magazine. Use your back
button to go back to your article page.
Click on print preview
in
the tools box
This is how the
article will print if
you don’t choose
the PDF pages or
PDF is not an
option.
If you don’t know
what a word in the
article means,
highlight the word
and click on
dictionary.
Click on
“Back to Search Results”
To save articles for later:
Check the box
Click on Marked Items
You can view from here or download
Refine “within these results” to narrow your results even further
Always choose full text
This took us from 238 magazines to 19, from 524 news articles to 33, etc.