NoodleTools

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NoodleTools
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Starting NoodleTools

• Create a Personal ID
• This is the time you will need the NHS UserName
  and Passwordsee library staff
• See the next slide to get started

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Create Your Personal ID
Create your ID
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Click Register here
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School User Name Password
Use School User Name Password here
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Create Your Own ID Password
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Your Personal ID

• All your log-ins from now on will be with your
  Personal ID
• You no longer need the school ID, but you must
  remember our own ID (the one you just created)

You can now access NoodleTools from home
Log in with Personal ID
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Creating New List
Always use MLA Advanced
Name your project
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Create List for Project

• Create a new list for each project, NOT each
  source.
• All your sources for one research project will be
  on ONE list.

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Start Your List

• Drop the menu to find the type of information
  source you are using.
• Select source
• I selected a magazine source

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Add Citations

• My research paper is on stem cell research.
• This is an article I found in the EBSCO database
  (remember to choose MAS Ultra)

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What Information Will I Need?
Article Title
Author
Source, (Magazine) Date,Page etc.
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Persistent Link EBSCO is the only database that
we have that provides a persistent link

• The Persistent Link allows your reader to access
  your article directly. In other words, they do
  not have to navigate the database to read the
  article you cite.

Find the Persistent Link
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Example of direct link
Smith, John. Banning Handguns Does Not Reduce
Crime. Gun and Crime. At Issue. Farmington
Hills, MI Greenhaven Press, 2000. Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. 4 Nov.
2006 lthttp//infotrac.galegroup.com/?itweb/??dbOV
RCgt.
Some teachers will require the direct link
embedded URL lthttp//find.galegroup.com/ovrc/info
mark.do?contentSetGSRCtyperetrievetabIDT010
prodIdOVRCdocIdEJ3010028219sourcegalesrcprod
OVRCuserGroupNamesiou96360version1.0gt.
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SIRS and Opposing Viewpoints OR any chapter
source that is part of a book.
The italics tell you that this is one view-point
in a BOOK called At Issue The Ethics of Human
Clon-ing. You would be citing part of a book
(like a chapter) with an editor of Woodward and
author of Barglow.

• Source Citation
• Barglow, Raymond. "Therapeutic Cloning Can Save
  Lives." At Issue The Ethics of Human Cloning.
  Ed. John Woodward. San Diego Greenhaven Press,
  2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
  Thomson Gale. West High School - IA. 18 Oct. 2007
  lthttp//find.galegroup.com/ovrc/infomark.do?conte
  ntSetGSRCtyperetrievetabIDT010prodIdOVRCdo
  cIdEJ3010028219sourcegalesrcprodOVRCuserGrou
  pNamesiou96360version1.0gt.

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Adding the Citation

• Noodletools will now have you fill in a series of
  boxes to add your citation information.
• Remember that EBSCO, Opposing Viewpoints and SIRS
  are all subscription databases.
• If you miss a required part of the citation,
  Noodletools will ask for it.
• You are responsible for your own capitalization.

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Database URLs

• EBSCO--http//search.ebscohost.com/
• Opposing Viewpoints--http//infotrac.galegroup.com
  /itweb/siouxnhs
• SIRS--http//sks.sirs.com/