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RESEARCH TOOL LINKS

Library Home Page
(Library Home Page Annotated)

Library Catalog 

Research Guides:  Get Started!

ILLiad InterlibraryLoan

Web Search Engines - choose "I need opinions & perspectives"

Boolean Searching
(from University at Albany Libraries) 

Citing Sources (from Indiana University at Bloomington)

Plagiarism: How to Avoid It (from Indiana University at Bloomington)

COURSE RELATED RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

HDF 332
Socialization of Children within an Ecological System

Fall 2008

Understanding Citing Before the Project Is Due
(what information you need to track )

Student Academic Honesty Policy at Pburgh
Are we all on the same page? Quick Quiz from the Library at UW Eau Claire

APA Citation Guide with lots of examples

Encyclopedias to Get Started With
CREDO Reference Collection
Virtual Reference Library

Newspaper Databases:
Custom Newspapers (150 national/international newspapers)
New York Newspapers
US Newspaper List

Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau Current Poverty Data and Publications

Useful General Full-Text Databases:
ProQuest Research Library
Academic Search Premier

Full-Text Subject Databases

Education Research Complete
Full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Includes all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.

SocINDEX with Full Text 
Provides comprehensive full-text access to journal articles covering all aspects of sociology and related fields.  Coverage includes criminal justice, gender studies, ethnic & racial studies, family studies, social work and substance abuse.
Indexing included for books and conference papers.  Coverage is from 1895 to present.

Professional Development Collection
Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers.

PsycARTICLES
Provides full-text access to publications of the American Psychological Association (APA), including more than 50 peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books. Full-text of journals is from 1985 to present; full-text of book chapters is from 2000-2002. Journals and book chapters are indexed and abstracted in PsycINFO.

Getting To Journal Content:
Journals AtoZ --  online directory of journals with full-text available.  
How To Guide

Finding Journals: A Brief Guide
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Recommended Search Engines:

Does your local organization have a website?
For example: find the Plattsburgh organization Journey into Reading or the Good News Garage in VT

Google   Use advanced search to limit to .org or .gov sites
Exalead  Use advanced search to search topics on web sites

Evaluating Web Sites:  Where to Look for Information

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This page created by:  
Carla Hendrix, carla.hendrix@plattsburgh.edu
Last Updated:09/08/08 by Karen Volkman,volkmake@plattsburgh.edu