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PowerSearch 2.0

By LisaW
Created 2009-11-26 10:08

Search 80 million documents, in a single click!

When a search is conducted, Gale PowerSearch quickly retrieves relevant results from all the Gale databases.

Other features of PowerSearch are:
• Search Alerts with RSS export — Users can set up instant search alerts and journal alerts to create RSS feeds of valued InfoTrac content; these RSS feeds will not expire
• Visual Search — Using Grokker, users can view their results visually, in a concept map that
• Did You Mean? — When a search fails to bring desired results, users are given alternate spellings and
• Search Within Results — Users can further refine their search results by adding more terms to their query
• Enhanced limiting — After a search is completed, the left sidebar provides users with the option of selecting subject terms, subdivisions, article types and publications that will allow them to further limit their results

This and many other research databases are available free to all publically funded school in Ontario via Knowledge Ontario. http://groups.google.com/group/resourceontarioschools [1]  

For login information contact your teacher-librarian or one of your school sector reps: lisa.weaver@tdsb.on.ca [2]  
Gale PowerSearch screenshots: http://access.gale.com/ontario/ps/index.html [3]  


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