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Finding information on your topic

 

Using the Library catalog

• Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 65 other Illinois academic libraries. Enter any relevant key words, or to be more specific, enter your word or phrase as a "Browse Subject" term in the search box.

• Sample Browse Subject terms (Library of Congress Subject Headings):

Literacy	Gender in literature	Education, bilingual
Discourse analysis	Oral communication	Multiculturalism
Sex role	Social justice	Language and languages

• Ordering books from other libraries ~ Illinet Online allows you to request books held by 65 academic libraries in Illinois.

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Article databases

• ERIC ~A key source for education information. Allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents. Many journal articles are available in full-text. However, to view ERIC documents, you must use ERIC's companion Internet website, or check with the Reference Desk to see if the document is available in microfiche.

• ProQuest Education Complete ~ Contains more than 550 titles on education--including primary, secondary, and university-level topics--with nearly 300 in full text. Includes the indexing and abstracts from Education Abstracts, plus many additional titles.

• Professional Development Collection ~Designed for professional educators, this database provides journal articles, many of which are peer-reviewed.

• Academic Search Elite ~ Selected full text of journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others. An excellent general resource with lots of scholarly articles

  How do I find out if the Library has the journal I need? 3 easy steps.

  1. Do we carry the journal's full-text articles in another database? Try Full Text Periodicals Available Online ~ search for the journal/magazine title, e.g. Renaissance Quarterly.

  2. Check Illinet Online for the journal/magazine title (not the article title) in print form, e.g. Studies in English Literature.

  3. To order an article the Elmhurst College library does not own, fill in this form: Request an article.

   

• NCTE ~An extremely important resource for educators, the National Council of Teachers of English has links to related publications, events, programs, and other initiatives relating to literacy.

• National Institute for Literacy ~A government website that supports "programs and services designed to improve the quality of literacy programs nationwide."

• Literacy.org ~is "a gateway to electronic resources and tools for the national and international youth and adult literacy communities. This site is jointly sponsored by the International Literacy Institute (ILI) and the National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL) at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education."

Evaluating Internet Web Sites & Citation Resources

• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

• Looking for Articles in Journals and Magazines: Scholarly or Popular?

• MLA Citation Resources

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Created 10/27/03 by A.J. Baker, updated 10/7/04 by J. Hill, Elmhurst College