Want to practise your database search skills?
Find the answers to the questions in this quiz by searching ANZ Newsstand (Proquest).
1. Find an article by Rosemary McLeod on the Schapelle Corby case. What is her opinion on the case?
Hint: Use advanced search. Enter McLeod, Rosemary as author and then Corby, Schapelle as a person.
2. Find more opinion pieces written by McLeod
Hint: At the end of the article above there is a box labelled ‘more like this’. Check the boxes for McLeod, Rosemary and opinion and search.
3. When was Keisha Castle-Hughes’ pregnancy reported?
Hint: Do an advanced search. Enter Castle-Hughes, Keisha as a person, then pregnan* (* is used as a wild card and will bring up any words starting with pregan, ie pregnancy, pregnant) to search in the citation and document type. Find the earliest articles.
4. Find a list of recipes by Julie Le Clerc. What publications can they be found in?
Hint: Use a basic search. Enter Le Clerc, Julie in the author search box.
5. View articles available from the last issue of the New Truth and TV extra tabloid.
Hint: Click on the publications tab. Search for the title and click on the link for it. A list of issues will come up.
6. Find articles on the accusations against Helen Clark’s husband Peter Davis, from Ian Wishart, editor of Investigate magazine.
Hint: Use advanced search and enter all three people involved in search boxes under the people category, tied together witht the Boolean operator 'AND'. This will bring up all articles relating to all three.
7. What is the name of the collection Kate Sylvester premiered at the 2006 Air New Zealand Fashion Week?
Hint: Do an advanced search, entering “Sylvester, Kate” as a person and “Air New Zealand Fashion Week” as a phrase in quotation marks to search under citation and document text.
8. How would you find articles from The Australian on terrorism relating to Australia?
Hint: Do an advanced search, entering the wildcard term terroris* to search citation and document text. Then browse for publications and find the Australian. Enter ‘Local’ as the section of the newspaper to search under.
9. Find articles on fireworks published in the aftermath of Guy Fawkes night 2005
Hint: Enter “Guy Fawkes” in quotation marks to search citation and document text AND fireworks, also to search citation and document text. Then, under date range, pull down the menu and select ‘Specific date range’. Enter 11/5/2005 to 12/5/2005, to get a month’s worth of articles. Make sure the date format is mm/dd/yyyy.
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