Proquest

1. I did a search for driving cell phones. I checked only full text articles. I always tell my students that they should check the full text because if they find an abstract of the perfect article the odds of us having the whole the article in the library aren't very good. I did notice the Find Text button of some but most students don't have the time to order it from the state library or our sources. The results were 422 documents. I like the suggest box for narrowing your topic. Sometimes what the students are thinking and what the writers of Proquest are thinking aren't the same terms so it is good to see some suggestions there. From the box I picked Cellular telephones AND Traffic accidents & safety which was closer to what I was looking for. I got results of 333 documents which is still a lot but I noticed that all were not full text so clicked on the link to show only full text and got 137. The students like Proquest because they seem to have most topics that they are looking for.

2 I searched for School Library Journal. They were all full text articles from 1996 to the present. You could also have the new issues delivered to you via the RSS. That is nice then you don't have to keep checking when the new issue comes out. I use this a lot when a teacher or student sees an article somewhere and wants a copy of the article. If they have the name of the publication and the date it is easy to go in and find the article. They think it is wonderful.