Task #3 Intro to MasterFile

Hi Webolution-ers! This task includes an extra-credit offer at the end for a chance to get an additional entry into the drawing of your choice...read on!

Did you know we have a great database brimming with full-text, current articles from popular magazines like Time, Sports Illustrated, Shape, Cosmopolitan, Consumer Reports and lots more?  MasterFile Premier is a great resource for patrons who either can't or don't want to buy certain popular magazines, patrons who want to read articles on the go, patrons doing research, or just handy if our copy is missing for a particular issue--just to give a few examples. Plus MasterFile has a lot of publications we don't have, for example, PC Magazine, which we recently stopped carrying. It's always worth a try to check MasterFile.

Here's the description of MasterFile Premier from Ebsco: "nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags."  

MasterFile certainly has more to offer than popular magazines, but that's what we'll focus on for this task--specifically finding articles from Consumer Reports.

If you're curious, you can view all MasterFile Premier titles.  Not all are full-text, but many are.

To search for a publication in MasterFile, follow the mouse clicks below in this video (note--we do have a direct link to Consumer Reports in our A-Z resources list, but this way you'll know the steps to finding other publications, too):


Task #3:

• Watch the above video, paying attention to the notes that pop up along the bottom.
• Using the methods shown, find the most recent 'Best...' review article in Consumer Reports for smartphones, and post the date and title of the article in your blog post, e.g. 5/2008 (and that's not the answer btw!)
• Please don't forget to use the task number in your blog post title ;)

***Extra Credit*** Answer this one correctly, and earn an extra entry into the drawing of your choice.  ALL of the following must be answered correctly and fully in order to qualify:

• Name one article from the first page of results from the 1/9/1992 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
• State in your blog which drawing you want your extra ticket to go into--the $100 downtown gift card, or the Sony Reader. 

Have fun!