Honors 104/English 106

Social Responsibilities

A. C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst College

Selected Resources

Newspaper Articles

• New York Times (available on campus only)

• Chicago Tribune (To access this resource from off campus, go to Electronic Journals and Newspapers and choose Chicago Tribune from the list. You may also want to look at Accessing Library Resources From Off Campus.)

• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Use this for news and legal information. (To access this resource from off campus, go to Electronic Journals and Newspapers and choose Academic Universe from the list. You may also want to look at Accessing Library Resources From Off Campus.)

Popular, Scholarly, and Professional Articles

• Business Source Elite (To access this resource from off campus, go to Articles and Databases and choose Business Source Elite from the list. You may also want to look at Accessing Library Resources From Off Campus.)

• ABI/Inform (To access this resource from off campus, go to Articles and Databases and choose ABI/Inform from the list. You may also want to look at Accessing Library Resources From Off Campus.)

• Academic Search Elite (To access this resource from off campus, go to Articles and Databases and choose Academic Search Elite from the list. You may also want to look at Accessing Library Resources From Off Campus.)

• CQ Researcher A great place to start on current, controversial issues. Lots of good, basic information. (To access this resource from off campus, go to Reference Sources and choose CQ Researcher from the list. You may also want to look at Accessing Library Resources From Off Campus.)

Books

• Illinet Online is the library's catalog, telling you what books, journals, CD's, videos, DVD's, scores, etc. that the library owns.

Using the Internet for Academic Research

• Search engines, e.g. Yahoo!, Google, etc. ~ usually an inefficient way to find scholarly resources on the web. Example: John Walker Lindh.

• Professional associations and organizations, e.g., for John Walker Lindh: The White House or Fedlaw

  Associations on the Net from NetLibrary

  Directory of Associations from the American Society of Association Executives

• Scholarly web directories

  Librarians' Index to the Internet

  Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections