Schoolcraft students, faculty, and staff can access library databases from off-campus through Blackboard by clicking the “Organizations” tab. Go to https://bb.schoolcraft.edu
Tricks for Database Searching
Use AND in the search box to narrow your search. This is a good way to sift through many search results as it will look for multiple terms required for each result. Example search: "Automatic control" AND engineer*
Use OR in the search box to broaden your search. This will produce more search results as it is looking for various terms deemed acceptable. Example search: Mechatronics OR "technology and engineering"
Use NOT in the search box to prevent a particular result. The following example helped find eBooks about mechanical engineering, but eliminated results meant for younger readers. Example search: Mechanical engineering NOT juvenile
Use an asterisk (*) as a wild card for letters in a search term. The following search result will cover engineer, engineering, engineers. Example search: Engineer*
Use quotation marks around search terms to produce results with those terms together, not separated. The following example found results with the two terms together. Without the quotation marks, some search results may only include the first term, some may only include the second term, and some may result with both terms being used. Example search: "Automatic control"
Pay special attention to the subject terms for a particularly good eBook or journal article yielded from a search. These subject terms can help find other promising search results.
