I. Books
To find books and media on your topic:
EZRA: the Wittenberg
University library catalog
OhioLINK: merged
catalogs of more than 80 Ohio 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
OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC)
- OhioLINK also provides a wide collection of electronic books.
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
World Book Web Encyclopedia and
more reference materials online.
II. Internet Resources
Internet Search Engines:
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Google Scholar - Caution! This provides references to scholarly articles, but finding the actual article may be difficult and costly. Also, journal coverage is incomplete and not current. Subscription databases 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/
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