Tuesday, February 9, 2010

SIRS



Sirs is one of our more popular databases. Learn all about it and how you can use it.

State Integrated Knowledge Source

In Quick Search you can choose
from different options:

Keyword/Natural Language
Subject Headings
You can also choose to search in:
Researcher
Government Reporter
Renaissance
In addition you can sort your
results according to:
Date
Relevance
Lexile (level of difficulty)
Sirs



Advanced Search:
You can combine searches and search
for more than one term at a time. You can also specify:

Full Text
Author
Title

You can also do a proximity search or a search within ranges of lexile.
There is also a topic browse where you can browse for resources according to
topic.

You can also browse around under the database features tab.



The Educators resource section offers all kinds of online tutorials and other useful
information.