Library Workshop Handout for American Stories: Group II
Library Workshop Handout for American Stories: Group II
Jan 15, 2010
This is the handout for those who have identified themselves as
somewhat skilled, advanced, or otherwise partly prepped for
library research. While in the computing lab, make sure that
you are solid on the abilities listed under the first heading
("Things that it will be assumed you already know") below.
Your faculty can help if needed.
If, for example, you don't know what 'stacks' means in a library
context, ask before coming over to the library classroom. If
you have never used Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, or
any of the other general databases listed under the 'assumed'
list, then do so now.
In the library classroom, we'll prioritize any questions that you
have, and cover the content that we can in the remaining time.
Things that it will be assumed you already know:
Where the library reference desk is.
How to get to the library home page.
Using the OPAC to find books by title, author, and basic keyword.
Locating books in the stacks.
Locating books in the reference collection.
Checking books out at the Circulation desk.
Using Summit
Basic differences between a popular magazine, a scholarly journal, and a book.
How to browse or search for databases via the link Articles/Images via Databases
(on the library home page)
How to find journal articles in Academic Search Complete (ASC), JSTOR,
ScienceDirect, and one of the Wilson databases (Social Sciences Full Text,
Humanities Full Text, or Art Full Text)
Things we hope to cover (but ask about it if you want to be sure something below gets
covered):
Are libraries necessary in the age of Google? Is our library necessary?
Background/Reference resources (see other side of this handout)
Using one book to find other older books and articles: The Bibliography
Using one text to find related newer texts: Citation Searching
Why use Interlibrary Loan (ILL)?
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Finding articles in general
Subscription Databases vs Free Web
Hybrid: Google Scholar
Getting to Full Text
Advanced Searching
Peer review / Limiting searches to scholarly journals
Setting up Google Scholar Preferences at home
Google Books / Amazon Search Inside the Book
Introduction to citation (Style, Zotero)
Additional things we may not cover (if not, ask your librarian later about anything here
that interests you)
Subject Headings / Subject Searching
ILL for books not in Summit
Metasearch (search multiple databases at one time).
Journal Databases of Interest to the Program:
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
Social Sciences Full Text
SocIndex Full Text
Humanities Full Text
Art Full Text
ScienceDirect
MLA Bibliography
America: History and Life
Google Scholar
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature 1802 - 1907
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Library Workshop Handout for American Stories: Group II
Some Reference Resources of Interest
Online:
(you can locate these through the online catalog):
Oxford Companion to United States History
Oxford Companion to American Literature
Oxford Companion to American Theatre
American Indian Experience
African American Studies Center
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
(published 1907-1921)
The nineteenth century in print : the making of America in books and periodicals
Available until Feb. 7 only:
American History In Video (through library workshop website only)
Music Online (through library workshop website only)
Print Reference Resources:
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (208 volumes)
Dictionary of literary biography (237 volumes)
Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of American forest and conservation history
Encyclopedia of American political history : studies of the principal movements and ideas
Encyclopedia of American social history
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history (5 vols)
The encyclopedia of American religious history
The encyclopedia of Native American economic history
Encyclopedia of American cultural and intellectual history (3 vols)
Encyclopedia of Japanese American history : an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the
present
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history
Encyclopedia of women in American history (3 vols)
Encyclopedia of American history (11 vols)
Encyclopedia of American disability history (3 vols)
The encyclopedia of strikes in American history
A to Z of Native American women
American settlement houses and progressive social reform : an encyclopedia of the
American settlement movement
Encyclopedia Latina : history, culture, and society in the United States
Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights : from emancipation to the present
Encyclopedia of Native American religions : an introduction
Encyclopedia of the antebellum South
The encyclopedia of third parties in America
Encyclopedia of American immigration (4 vols)
Encyclopedia of American education (3 vols)
Encyclopedia of American women in business : from colonial times to the present
Encyclopedia of immigration and migration in the American West
The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to the
twenty-first century (2 vols)
Encyclopedia of world environmental history (3 Vols)
Encyclopedia of World Cultures (10 Vols)
The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide.
The Garland encyclopedia of world music (10 vols.)
The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments (3 Vols)
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