English 106: Spring 2003
Dr. Ted Lerud
NOTE:
If you are accessing this page from off campus,
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resources, go to the Library Web Page, where you
can connect to Articles and Databases, Reference Sources,
and Electronic Journals and Newspapers after providing your Elmhurst
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Services, Room 107 CSTC. More
help on accessing resources from off campus is available online.
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Reference Sources
Check out some of our reference sources for more information
on your topic. Some examples include:
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Encyclopedia of business,
R 650.103 E56
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Encyclopedia of human behavior,
R 150.3 E56
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Encyclopedia of Psychology,
2nd ed. (Corsini), R 150.3 E561994
- Encyclopedia of Psychology (Kazdin), R 150.3
E56p
- Encyclopedia of sports science, R 613.71 E56
- International encyclopedia of business and management,
R 650.03 I61
- International encyclopedia of communications,
R 302.2 I61
- The international handbook of corporate finance,
R 658.15 I61 2000
- Occupational
Outlook Handbook ~ the online version
of the U.S. Government publication, also available in print R 371.425O15
- Kiss, bow, or shake hands: how to do business in
sixty countries, R 395.52 M882k
Encyclopedias are especially useful because they often
have bibliographies at the end of their articles; these bibliographies can
lead you to other useful books and articles.
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Finding Books
Use Illinet
Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well
as books owned by 44 other Illinois academic libraries. Illinet Online can
also be accessed from the Books button on the library
home page.
Quick Searches offer a good way to start looking
for books in Illinet Online. You can either look for particular items (such
as works by a particular author, or under a particular title), or you can
do keywords searching. Use the main words describing your topic. For example,
to find books about development, try the following Quick
Search:
Type the word development
The above search yields items with the word development
anywhere in the description of the item; some of these may be solely
about abortion, and others may not. You can try to focus your search
on governmental views on abortion by adding more search terms, as below:
Select Boolean for your search
type, and type in development and lifespan
You can also do a browse
subject search, which is a more precise way of searching.
Illinet Online uses Library of Congress Subject Headings
(or LC subject headings) to arrange and organize information.
Unlike keywords, you can't simply make these up; you have to
find out what the exact terms are and enter them in Illinet
as a subject search. Here are some examples of subject headings:
- Negotiation in business
- Customer services
- Depression, mental
- Behavior modification
- Physical education and training
- Capital investments
- Project management
- Developmental psychology
Guided Keyword Searches allow
you more flexibility. Click the appropriate tab, and fill
in the blanks as desired. You can change your searching
options to look for either some or all of the words you've
typed in, and to look in different areas of the item's catalog
record.
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Finding and Using
Articles
Journal and Magazine Articles (Elmhurst College
users only)
Use article databases to help you find
articles (only some of the 70+ databases are listed below). Some databases
will give you the full text of the article, which you can then go ahead and
print, while others will require you to find out if we own the journal where
the article is published.
General Databases
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Academic
Search Elite ~ A good place to start. Includes references to scholarly
as well as popular periodicals. Some of the magazines included
herein include Time, Newsweek, and the Economist.
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Periodical
Abstracts ~ Includes indexing, abstracting, and some full
text for magazine and journal articles, including from the Economist,
Redbook, and Rolling Stone.
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WilsonSelectPlus
~ Includes indexing, abstracting, and full text for a variety
of magazines and journals, including Ebony, People, and
Parenting.
Business
Communications
Psychology
Kinesiology
Newspaper Articles (Elmhurst College users only)
While you can often find some of the text of newspaper
articles from their online counterparts, such as the Chicago Tribune, you often
cannot get the full article, or access to older articles. This is why it is
important to remember that the library subscribes to a variety of newspaper
sources.
- Wall
Street Journal ~ full text from 1985 to present. On campus access
only.
- New
York Times ~ full text back to 1999, with indexing available back
to 1990. For older articles, try ProQuest
Historical Newspapers: New York Times, which has full text articles
back to 1851. On campus access only.
- Chicago
Tribune ~ full text from 1985 to present.
- NewsIllinois
~ includes full text of selected AP and Tribune articles about or related
to Illinois. On campus access only.
- Academic
Universe ~ accesses a variety of news and business sources, many of
which are full text.
- Newspaper
Source ~ full text from more than 100 U.S. and international newspapers.
Includes sources such as USA Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer,
The (London) Times, and transcripts from NPR's Morning Edition.
Where Is It? (Or, Getting Your Hands on an Article
When It's Not in the Database)
- How do I get an article from another library?
- If an article is not available from our collection,
it will be retrieved via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). This process takes 7
to 10 days, so leave yourself plenty of time.
- How do I know whether an article is useful to me?
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Internet Resources
How can you find good web sites and weed
out the bad sites? There are several tools you can use, some of which are below.
Evaluating Internet Resources
Learn what to look for in a web site, and find out what
the red flags are.
Subject Directories
Subject directories are collections of
web sites organized by topic. These sites have been evaluated by others, so
that you can be assured of their quality.
When you feel comfortable evaluating
web sites on your own, you can use any of the numerous search engines to find
sites on your topic. Here are some popular engines.
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Dogpile
~ a metasearch engine, which searches multiple search engines simultaneously
Despite what some would have you believe,
not everything is available for free on the Internet. Don't rely on the web
as your only source of information. Choose web sites carefully using the resources
below, and use them to support your articles and books, not to replace
them.
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Writing and Citing
Sources
Writing/Research/Topic Development Assistance
The below resources can give you some
assistance if you are getting frustrated or confused. If you would like someone
to look over a draft of your paper, the Writing
Center is available.
Why is it crucial that you properly cite
all the sources you use for a paper, be they articles, books, web sites, or
e-mail messages. Because if you don't properly credit a source, you are engaging
in plagiarism.
Whether you cut and paste text from an on-line article to your paper, or simply
neglect to use quotation marks when warranted, plagiarism in all its forms is
strongly discouraged. Write your paper with a clear conscience, and use any
of the below sources to help you cite your sources.
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More Information Literacy
Tools
Librarians often use a lot of technical terms, such as "information
literacy" -- but what do these terms mean? The below web sites can help you
figure this out and give you insight into the importance of information literacy.
Created 10 March, 2003
Last modified
10 March, 2003
by Ayanna Gaines, Assistant Reference Librarian
A.C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst College