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
Good online reference sources:
Oxford Reference Online
Credo Reference
II. Internet Resources
Internet Search Engines:
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| Google Scholar - Caution! This provides references to scholarly articles, but finding the full text of the article may be difficult and costly. Bring a complete citation for tricky sources to the reference desk and we'll help you find it. Subscription databases (see below) are almost always better. |
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.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
- this database gives access to general-interest periodicals.
Lexis-Nexis
- Includes magazines, newspapers, journal
articles, and much more.
JSTOR -
A rolling backfile of journal articles (meaning this database does not contain
the most recent 2 to 5 years worth of journal articles)
For
other ideas, see the full
List of Indexes and Databases, with hundreds of
database
options.
To locate journals:
At
Wittenberg: Search Journals
the Library Has,
for a list of
magazines and journals to which
Wittenberg subscribes, 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.
*For fastest response, email the Reference Desk
- refdesk (at) wittenberg (dot) edu
Whoever sees it first will reply.
Ken Irwin (on sabbatical SP13) -
kirwin@wittenberg.edu
Alisa Mizikar -
amizikar@wittenberg.edu
Kristen Peters - kpeters (at) wittenberg (dot) edu