How-to
Discover offers multiple tools and resources to help with the research process.
The Research Tools can be found in the top left corner of the home screen in Discover.
My Research allows users to organize content within World Book Online digitally. In order to use the My Research feature, you must have a My World Book Account. Click here to learn how to create a My World Book account.
The My Research dashboard will have tiles displaying your various My Research projects. Each tile displays the project’s name and the date that the project was last edited. To open any project click open in the tile.
If you do not have any My Research projects or would like to create a new one, select create project. You will then be prompted to enter a title for your new project. Once it has a title you are ready to start saving content!
At any time users can select log out at the top of their screen to log out of their My World Book account and return to the Discover homepage.
Selecting Exit My Research in the top right corner or the Discover logo in the top left corner will take users to the Discover homepage without logging them out of their My World Book Account.
My Research allows users to save content and media from Discover to a new or existing project. Content is organized by type within each project. When you first open a My Research project you will be able to see the content in the first category, in this case, Encyclopedia Articles. Each item will have the logo of the product they were saved in. For example, the “Macaque” article was saved in Discover so it shows the Discover logo, and the “Proboscis Monkey” article was saved in Student and shows the Student logo.
To reveal content by type, click the arrow next to the desired source type (in this example, "Images").
As users save different types of content, more categories will appear to organize that content. For example, I will not see a category for images until I have saved an image to the project. There are many categories that content can be sorted into. The image below shows how it may look with content saved in many different categories.
Users can create multiple projects within My Research to stay organized. Switch projects by selecting the Switch Projects drop-down menu.
Manage your entries by deleting them or adding notes. Click Delete to remove the item from the project.
Notes can be used for reminders, a detail to follow up on later, or other information you may want to reference in the future. To start a new note select Add Note, to edit an existing note select Edit Note.
The top of every project includes options to email the project, delete the project, and get help from the Training Guide.
Users can search for content to add to their My Research project from within a project by using the search bar at the top.
Using this search bar will result in a typical search results page in Discover. For example here are my results when searching for “Monkey”.
Users can browse different types of content to save by selecting a category along the top of the screen.
Any type of content can be saved to a My Research project by selecting the save icon on the desired content item and choosing Save to My Research. Users can then choose to save to an existing project or a new project.
After choosing a project will get a confirmation message that tells you your content has been saved to your My Research project.
Additionally, users can save books and external websites to a project in My Research. Save a book's bibliographic details by selecting the plus sign under the Books heading and filling out the fields.
Save a website's details by selecting the plus sign under the My Websites heading and entering a website's name and URL.
There are a lot of ways to save content throughout World Book, click here to learn various ways to save content to My Research.
How to do Research contains a step-by-step tutorial for each step in the research process, including how to find and evaluate print and digital information, how to organize and cite the sources, and templates for research papers.
To access, select How to do Research from the Research Tools drop-down menu.
There are two ways to open different skills:
Clicking on either a main skill or a subskill will lead a user to that step in the research process. To jump back to the home screen and select a new skill, click the arrow in the bottom right corner.
At anytime, users can access the pop-out menu to jump to different steps in the research process. To reveal this menu, click the orange hamburger tile.