I. Books
To find books and media on
your topic:
EZRA: the Wittenberg University library catalog
OhioLINK: merged catalogs of more than 80 Ohio academic
libraries and
two public libraries
Usually, EZRA and OhioLINK will provide
ample books and media for your project.
If you still need more, use WorldCat - Worldwide bibliographic utility,
and
Interlibrary
Loan form for books that neither
Note: If you are still choosing a topic or are
just getting started, you may want to use an encyclopedia or
other basic reference source. Check The Encyclopedia
Britannica,
The American
Heritage Dictionary, and more
online.
II. Internet Resources
Internet Search Engines:
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Sample Web Sites to Evaluate:
Set 1: http://www.beefnutrition.org/
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/
Set 2: http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.thekingcenter.org/
Set 3: http://www.homepro.com/ -
http://www.hgtv.com/
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Set 4:
http://www.smokingsection.com/issues1.html#smoke
http://www.no-smoke.org/ets.html
http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/
III. Finding Journal Articles
Guidelines
on how to distinguish scholarly from popular articles
Databases with broad coverage:
Academic
Search Complete - contains full
text for more than 3,600 scholarly
publications, plus article summaries for 900 more journals. This
database
is most likely the best one for starting your
research.
Masterfile Premier
- A sister file to Academic Search Complete, this database gives
access to general-interest periodicals. Some full text.
Lexis-Nexis
- almost all full text. Includes magazines, newspapers, journal
articles, and much more.
JSTOR - A rolling backfile of journal articles. Almost all full text.
For
other ideas, see the full
List of Indexes and Databases, with nearly 200
database
options.
To locate journals:
At
Wittenberg: Search Journals
the Library Has,
for a list of
magazines and journals that
Wittenberg owns, both online and in hard copy.
At other Ohio Libraries: Use Interlibrary Loan.
IV. People Help
Wittenberg librarians welcome your questions.
If you have any questions at all about
your research--how to get started or how to proceed--contact us.
We will respond
promptly.
Reference Desk - refdesk@wittenberg.edu
- (Whoever sees it first will reply.)
Alisa Mizikar - amizikar@wittenberg.edu
Kristen Gibson - kgibson@wittenberg.edu
Ken Irwin - kirwin@wittenberg.edu