SD Library Challenge 4--Proquest

I decided to do a search on "Guernica", since my art class will be learning about Picasso and this famous 'anti-war' painting.  This Guernica search produced 1620 results.  It gives an abstract of the article and then the full text.  At the bottom, you can click on "cite" an it will give you the citation which would come in very handy for students.  You can also narrow the search.  I narrowed the search to "Guernica AND allegory".  I got 70 results that were full text.  I got 52 results when I changed the search to "peer reviewed".  I also notice it will give you some help if your search produces 0 results.  It will list suggested subjects to go along with it.  One thing I really like is that the search terms are highlighted.  A Guernica search via "Arts, Film and Music" subj. search gave 625 results.  I narrowed it to magazines which gave  247 results.  I also noticed that I had to dig more through the magazines before I found what I was looking for whereas when I was looking through just the scholarly journals, I found them faster.  I like that it will show how many scholarly journals, magazines, trade journals,newspapers,etc.  You can create an alert to have articles sent to you when new content is added.  You can also save the search and it will be saved in "My Research" which would be really nice for anyone doing research. 

I commented on Kermit's Crazy Kat Cousin's blog.

On the Publications tab, I did a search in Art Education since I teach art also.  I clicked on 'view most recent issues' which brought up Jan. 2012.  There were 10 results for that.  Right away, an article caught my eye.  It was called "We Turned Your World Upside Down:  Contemporary Art Practices in the High School Classroom and Spaces Beyond.  It was actually a very interesting article!  I could also do a 'search within this publication" as well as browse for specific issues.  I was impressed at all the Publications that are available and I plan on checking this site out again later for items of interest to me.  I also plan on mentioning this to the staff since there are so many publications, I'm sure everyone could find something on here.