Intercultural Studies Seminar (ICS270)

Finding Books

Search Illinet Online, the library's catalog. 

Using Guided Keywords, try the following:

Americans With Disabilities Act

Disabilities

Disability

Learning Disabilities

Handicapped children Development

Handicapped Handbook

Children Disabilities

Handicapped Discrimination

People with Disabilities

Disability Rights Movement

Women Poetry

Women Authors

Chicago Poetry

Deaf Culture

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Finding Articles

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

Periodical Abstracts (To use this database from off campus, go to Articles and Databases and choose Periodical Abstracts from the alphabetical list. You may also want to look at Accessing Library Resources From Off Campus.)

ProQuest Psychology Journals (To use this database from off campus, go to Articles and Databases and choose ProQuest Psychology Journals from the alphabetical list. You may also want to look at Accessing Library Resources From Off Campus.)

PsycINFO (To use this database from off campus, go to Articles and Databases and choose PsycINFO from the alphabetical list. You may also want to look at Accessing Library Resources From Off Campus.)

Wilson Select Plus (To use this database from off campus, go to Articles and Databases and choose Wilson Select Plus from the alphabetical list. You may also want to look at Accessing Library Resources From Off Campus.)

Sociological Abstracts ~ An index to research in sociology. It's in print form and is located on the lower level in the index area.

• Alphabetical List of Magazines and Journals Available Online
• Search Illinet Online for the journal title, e.g. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
• Request an article from a journal not owned by the EC Library

 

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Using the Web for Academic Research

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

• Scholarly web directories

  Librarians' Index to the Internet (some scholarly, some popular)

  Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

• Specific Websites

  American Psychological Association

  Voice of the Shuttle (literature and the humanities)

  Disability Topics from the Librarians' Index to the Internet

  Gallaudet University

  History Through Deaf Eyes from Gallaudet University

  Yahoo! : Society and Culture: Disabilities

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This page was created 11/19/2002 and was last modified 11/19/2002 by Anne Jordan-Baker, Assistant Librarian, Elmhurst College.