Please answer the following questions using Academic Search Premier.  Click on Edit Page and enter the password library.  Type your responses in the boxes provided.  When finished, click Save.

 

You are researching music downloading and its effects on the CD industry.

 

1. Do a search for music downloading.  Do not set any limits.  How many results do you get?

 

 

2147

  

 

2. Do a new search for "music downloading."  Make sure to put the term in quotes.  How many results do you get this time?

 

 

1232

 

 

 

3. Add CD industry to your search.  How many results do you get this time?

 

 

74

 

 

 

4. Look at the full record for the first article in the list.  What is this article about?  Is it on topic?

 

 

RIAA and record lables want to ban consumers from copying cds, which they have purchased.  Yes it is on topic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Return to your list of results.  Find a scholarly/academic article in the list.  Type the title of the article and explain how you know it is scholarly.  List 3 reasons.

 

 

Title: Share, Steal, or Buy? A Social Cognitive Perspective of Music Downloading   1. When we clicked Academic Journal this article came up. 2. Says it is a journal. 3. It has a Bibliography or Work cited.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. How could you truncate one or both of your search terms?  Type the truncated search term(s).

 

 

By puting in a asterisks after the word. Such as music download*

 

7. If the full text of an article you want is not available in Academic Search Premier, what would you do?

 

 

You click find full text in other databases.

 

 

 

 

 

8. Type 1 or 2 synonyms or related terms fo music downloading and CD industry.  How did you come up with these terms?  (Hint: Subjects, Thesaurs, brainstorming)

 

 

File sharing, Pod Casting, pirating. We brainstormed and looked at the results by subject list.

 

 

 

 

 

Click Save.