MOREnet Training

MOREnet provides selected training opportunities for its customers. Details about this training can be viewed by selecting links below.

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Course Description

Classes are completed in one day unless a different duration is specified.

General

• Duration: 1 day
• Session times: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (deliverable hours = 6.0)

The online resources listed are provided to MOREnet members through funding by the Missouri General Assembly. This appropriation is made to the Secretary of State's Office and is administered by the Missouri State Library.

This class is designed to familiarize participants with the various resources available to MOREnet members. The instructor will demonstrate each resource. Participants will search, explore and practice using the resources through hands-on exercises.

At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Access online resources available through MOREnet
• Display familiarity with the toolbars of each resource
• Demonstrate effective searching through general and refined search techniques
• Print, e-mail and save search results
• Navigate among the online resources
• Navigate within each online resource
• Distinguish differences among online resources
• List methods of implementing online resources into current programs

Resources

Gale Databases - provides an online search and retrieval system for periodical publications in following general categories:

• General Interest
• Academic
• Health
• K-12
• Business

These resources are provided in the following databases:

• Academic OneFile
• Business & Company Resource Center
• Small Business Resource Center
• General OneFile
• Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health
• Health & Reference Center Academic
• InfoTrac Student Edition
• InfoTrac Junior Edition
• Kids Infobits
• InfoTrac Customer Newspapers
• Informe
• Various InfoTrac Collections

Gale Discovering Collection - Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements make it easy for students to research papers and class assignments in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.

NewsBank - provides full-text, cover-to-cover news stories from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Kansas City Star.

Learning Express Library - This resource is designed to help people succeed on the tests they must pass to gain citizenship, improve their testing skills or to further their education or career. Over 300 online academic and licensing practice tests including SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, Advanced Placement, civil service, military, real estate, law enforcement, citizenship, TOEFL, ESL and basic skills for elementary, middle and high school skills improvement and much more. Test preparation materials span ages from elementary through adult. This testing resource also provides instant scoring and customized feedback.

Registration

To register, visit the Training Registration Request Form.