Library Research Session for PESM
Oct 12, 2011
To be Covered:
The Googlezon Effect: Are libraries necessary? Is our library necessary?
Background/Reference resources (see other side of this handout)
Summit: getting books delivered to you (fast) from UW, WSU, UO, OSU, etc.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): getting digital articles from other libraries (fast,
usually)
The Bibliography: Using one book or article to find other older books and
articles
Finding articles in general:
Library subscription databases vs. the free Web
Hybrid: Google Scholar
Library Website  Full Text
Free Web  Full Text
The poverty of the ‘topic’ / The value of research questions and hypotheses.
And if time allows:
Google Books / Amazon Search Inside the Book
Finding Book Reviews and Review Essays
Using one book or article to find newer books and articles (including book
reviews)
Peer review, scholarship, objectivity(?): or, how to stop worrying and love a
good academic debate.
Interesting things we might not cover today (but ask your librarian about them
later)
Subject Headings and Subject Searching
ILL for books not in Summit
Setting up Google Scholar Preferences at home
Zotero
Journal/Article Databases of Interest to this Program:
Social Sciences Full Text
SocIndex with Full Text
America: History and Life
Historical Abstracts
Left Index
Academic Search Complete
JSTOR
GenderWatch / Ethnic NewsWatch / Alt-PressWatch
The Nation Digital Archive
Newsstand
Newspaper Source Complete
Google Scholar
Google News
To get to a few key Census-related sites:
http://library.evergreen.edu/government.html (on that page, look under “Statistics”)
More to come on the forthcoming Library Workshop webpage for this program
Some Online Reference Resources of Interest:
(these can be accessed remotely via the library’s online catalog)
CQ Researcher (ongoing, policy focus)
Encyclopedia of the industrial revolution in America
The international encyclopedia of revolution and protest 1500 to the present
The encyclopedia of strikes in American history
The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history
Encyclopedia of the Mexican American civil rights movement
Encyclopedia of political economy
Routledge encyclopedia of international political economy
Some Print Reference Resources of Interest:
(Evergreen Library locations can be found via the online catalog)
Encyclopedia Latina : history, culture, and society in the United States
Encyclopedia of women in American history.
Encyclopedia of racism in the United States
The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from
emancipation to the twenty-first century
Encyclopedia of international development
Protest, power, and change : an encyclopedia of nonviolent action from ACTUP to women's suffrage
Encyclopedia of the American left
Encyclopedia of American economic history : studies of the principal
movements and ideas
Encyclopedia of white power : a sourcebook on the radical racist right
The encyclopedia of Native American economic history
Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history
The Oxford encyclopedia of economic history
Encyclopedia of international relations and global politics
Encyclopedia of U.S. labor and working-class history
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (2008)
Paul McMillin
Faculty Reference Librarian
Email at mcmillip