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Following This Step-by-Step Process Can Be a Researcher's Lifesaver! The Kentucky Virtual Library (KyVL) is an excellent source to find quality articles about your topic. It is actually very easy to use once you get through all the steps to get to the database. Unfortunatley, you cannot use KyVL unless you are on a public school's network. However, there is a way around this, so follow the steps below to use KyVL from home.


 * 1) Click here to access KyVL
 * 2) Click "for students"
 * 3) Select "High School"
 * 4) Choose EBSCO HOST[[image:research.jpg align="right"]]
 * 5) **Username**: GrantSD2
 * 6) **Password**: kindbull16
 * 7) Click EBSCOhost
 * 8) Check boxes for the following:
 * 9) Academic Search Premier
 * 10) Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
 * 11) MAS Ultra - School Edition
 * 12) MasterFILE Premier
 * 13) Newspaper Source
 * 14) Sociological Collection
 * 15) TOPICsearch
 * 16) Then click "Continue"
 * 17) **IMPORTANT**: Before typing your topic and key words into the search box, scroll down a little bit to the "Limit your results" section and check the "Full Text" box so that your search only finds full articles instead of summaries and reviews.
 * 18) After entering your search information and clicking "Search," you can read the full articles by clicking on either //**HTML Full Text**// or //**PDF Full Text**//.
 * 19) Remember to site your source in APA format. You will need the following information from __every__ source:
 * 20) Author's name (every author listed)
 * 21) Publication date
 * 22) Volume number (if available)
 * 23) Issue number (if available)
 * 24) Periodical title
 * 25) Article title
 * 26) Publisher's name (if available)
 * 27) Page number(s) (if available)
 * 28) DOI number (if available)
 * 29) For examples and explanations of APA citations, go to Purdue University's online writing lab (OWL) website by clicking here and locating the appropriate example (journal article, newspaper article, magazine article, book, reference source, website, etc.)

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