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Boolean Searching
(from University at Albany Libraries) 

Evaluating Resources
(from Milner Library at Illinois State U.) 

Citing Sources

Understanding Call Numbers

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

Plagiarism? It's Your Call  (from Western Michigan University)

 

COURSE RELATED RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

Course Name:  ENG101 -- Written Expression 
Course Instructor: Michael Carrino
Session Librarian: Tim Hartnett
Session Date: April 8, 2008

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS: 

  • Use the tools below to find a variety of authoritative, credible sources of information relating to the short story you chose.
    (see "Evaluating Information").

  • Be sure to use print sources found in Feinberg Library as well as online sources.

  • Cite your sources using MLA Style guidelines 
    (see "Citing Your Sources").

  • Include printouts or photocopies of all the sources you used.

BOOKS 

Within Feinberg Library:  PlattCat  ("Search Feinberg" link on the Library Homepage) 

Beyond Feinberg Library: WorldCat   [ about ]    ("Search Worldwide" link on the Library Homepage)   

Search Tips:

         a.  start with specific name or thing (e.g. Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Clean Well Lighted Place)
         b.  broaden to topic as necessary (e.g. Hemingway and criticism)


GENERAL FULL-TEXT PERIODICAL ARTICLE DATABASES:

ProQuest Periodical Abstracts Research II
Search Periodical Abstracts II for information from over 1800 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences.

Academic Search Premier  
A large, multidisciplinary, full text database designed especially for colleges & universities with articles from over 4,000 scholarly journals in full-text as far back as 1975 and indexing for articles in another 4,000 scholarly journals.

Wilson Omnifile Full Text Select
Full-text access to hundreds of magazines and journals. Covers from 1994 to present.


SUBJECT-SPECIFIC DATABASES:

JSTOR The Scholarly Journal Archive  
Complete fulltext archives of 411 core journals in humanities, social sciences and sciences

Literature Resource Center
Combines biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information to provide a fulltext resource package on authors and their works.

MLA Bibliography
Massive bibliography from the Modern Language Association [NOT fulltext but may lead to fulltext]

Project MUSE
Fulltext articles from 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering many fields in the humanities and social sciences.

The Twayne Authors Series
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the fulltext of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.

OBTAINING THE FULL TEXT OF ARTICLES  -- and Journals A to Z  (link name Is a Journal Available Online?)

The following links provide menus of the many other databases available through Feinberg Library's database menus.

By Database Title  (alphabetical by name of database)
By Subject  (alphabetical by subject/academic department of database)
 

WEB DIRECTORIES & SEARCH ENGINES

Google -- "Google's index, comprised of more than 1 billion URLs, is the first of its kind and represents the most comprehensive collection of the most useful web pages on the Internet."  TIP:  Use the Advanced Search and/or Google Scholar (under the More >> link) options.

Vivisimo -- "automatically organizes search or database query results into meaningful hierarchical folders completely on-the-fly, out-of-the-box."

This page was prepared by librarian Tim Hartnett and last updated on 04/08/2008.