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Using Illinet
Online (the library catalog)
Illinet
Online is the library's book catalog.One of the
quickest ways to search is to browse by subject. Enter
a subject term (such as "interpersonal communication")
in the search box, and in the "Search by" box, choose "Browse
subject."
If you can't find books
writtten specifically about your subject, you can always try
an "Any Word Anywhere" search. Use quotation marks to
restrict your search to a specific phrase.
If
you can't find what you're looking for at our library, click
here to see how you can search other local
libraries and order books.
Note: If you find
books that you need to interlibrary loan, order them as soon
as possible! They 7-10 days to arrive.
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Basic Research Using Library Databases
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Use WebFeat
to search several databases at the same time.
From the Library home page, click
on "Do
Online Research" button and then select
"Search
for articles in multiple databases simultaneously using
WebFeat." At the search screen, enter your
keywords, then pich what databases you'd like to search.
You can either:
1) Check the checkbox by the subject
area you wish to search (Education, Psychology, Nursing,
et. cetera).
2) Pick from an alphabetical list
of individual databases (be sure to read the database descriptions),
then click "Go."
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Databases Appropriate
to Specific Subjects
Communication
Studies
Finding
Communication Studies Articles
Professional
Communication Associations on the Web
Theatre,
Musical Theatre, Speech/Theatre Education
Finding Articles
- JSTOR
~ JSTOR is an online library currently containing more than
100 journals in 15 different disciplines. JSTOR does not include
current issues of journals, but is an electronic archives of
titles, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence.
All full text.
- The
Gale Group collection of databases has
some very useful sources on playwrights and their works: check
out the following individual databases in the collection for
some excellent full-text resources and citations:
- Twayne Author Series
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Literature Resource Center
Professional
Theatre Associations on the Web
Speech-Language
Pathology
Finding
Speech-Language Pathology Articles
- ProQuest
Education Complete has a number of useful full-text
sources, including articles from such professional journals
as the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
- CINAHL
contains the full text of the American Journal of Speech-Language
Pathology (1998-present) and Language, Speech, and Hearing
Services in Schools (1997-present). It also indexes a large
number of similar sources, but you"ll probably have to
use these citations to find the articles. See this link
to find out if we carry journals online or in print form. Note~
CINAHL is currently only available on-campus.
Professional
Speech-Language Pathology Associations on the Web
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So you found
an article, but it's not full-text. Now what?
Don't fret. Look for this button 
or this one 
next to the article citation on the search screen (this
button isn't available in the Lexis-Nexis database). Clicking
on this button will take you to a list of full-text sources,
if available. If we don't carry the full-text article in
another database, you'll have the option to check the catalog
to see if we carry the journal in print, or order the article
via Interlibrary
Loan.
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Finding and Evaluating
Informtation Sources
Some Useful Web Resources to
help you evaluate web sites and resources
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This page was created
09/04/2001 by Anne Jordan Baker and was last modified September 8, 2004
by J. Hill, librarian.
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