Exercises
Now you try it...
Use the ONTAP (ONline Training And Practice) databases indicated to practice your searches.
View the current ONTAP user numbers and passwords. Remember that you must use the ONTAP user number and password to avoid incurring charges for your practice searches.
Log onto DialogWeb.
Exercise 6: Practice what you have learned in Lesson 6.
First, create your search strategies, then conduct the searches online in DialogWeb. Remember, you will need to logon using the practice (ONTAP) user id and password provided in order to search at no cost.
- Were there any mergers in the printing and publishing industry? If so, who merged?
(Use ONTAP INVESTEXT, File 216)
Hint: Use PC=27, the product code for Printing and Publishing.
- You are planning to search in multiple databases using Dialog OneSearch. What search strategies would you use for the following searches?
Test your search strategies using the DialogWeb databases selection tool, DATABASES, so you know which databases have information.
- I heard that Honeywell Corporation is getting ready to merge. Which databases do you think will provide this information? What search strategy would you use?
- Who is Intel looking to merge with some time in 1999? Which database(s) do you think will provide this information? What search strategy would you use?
- I heard that Honeywell Corporation is getting ready to merge. Which databases do you think will provide this information? What search strategy would you use?
Click the Check Yourself icon to check your search strategies, before you try your searches online.
When you have completed the above Exercises, go on to the Summary.
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