After following all the directions given in the lesson I ended up with 145 possible results. Since my husband is a hunter I thought I would click on the article entitled "Factors affecting road mortality of whitetailed deer in eastern South Dakota," because the more deer that get hit means the fewer there are to hunt. After clicking on the "Access" link, it took me to a digital commons site for the University of Nebraska Lincoln, which puzzled me a bit since this was a report on eastern South Dakota not Nebraska. Oh well. At first I thought only the abstract was available, but eventually I noticed a box on the side that said "Download." This did give me the entire PDF of the document, but that box wasn't immediately obvious as it was off to the side. However, that's UNL's issue not OAIster's.
My overall impression of OAIster is favorable compared to other databases, like ProQuest or EBSCO. I wouldn't necessarily say it's any easier to use, but it's not any harder to use. OAIster offers many of the same tools as they do - emailing the article, printing it, exporting it. The only thing I didn't see was a tool about source citing, but it caters to a different clientele.
As a side note, this picture was on the same page as the information about the article...it's rather humorous!
2 comments:
Great title for your post! You identified one of the aspects that can be confusing about OAIster, navigating the various websites you are sent to. It is a great tool for locating information however
-julie
Hi, library chick! Thanks for sharing the funny bear sign! You chose a good OAIster article, and yes, the download button can seem hidden on some of the pages. School & academic librarians recognize this as a great place for primary resources and images.
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