Revisions - JRVP Library Resources

UN2001, Sects. 09 & 11 Advocacy and Argument

Instructor: Diane Keranen dkeranen@mtu.edu

Librarian: Amanda Binoniemi abinonie@mtu.edu

 

Finding Background Information - Reference Collection - 2^nd Floor, unless noted

Encyclopaedia Britannica AE 5.E363 REF and online

World Almanac AY 67 .N5 W9 REF DESK

Encyclopedia of applied ethics BJ 63 .E458 REF

Facts on File D 410 .F3 REF World News Digest 1940- Comprehensive information to use as a starting point for research.

Editorials on File D 839 .E3 REF

Congress and the Nation E813.C7 REF

CQ Researcher H35.E2 REF (1991-2006) and online(Formerly called Editorial Research Reports 1959-1990)

Encyclopedia of Environment and Society HM 856 .E53 2007 REF

Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial social issues. HN59.2 .T35 1999 REF

American attitudes: who thinks what about the issues that shape our livesHN90.P8 M58 2000 REF

Womens rights: a global view HQ1236 .W6527 2001 REF

CQ Weekly JK 1 .C75 REF (1961 - ) and online (1983 - )

Vital Speeches of the Day PN6121 .V8 (1934-1992 Serials Collection - Garden Level, 1995- in ABI/Inform)

Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics Q 175.35 .E53 2005 REF

Encyclopedia of Ethics in Science & Technology - Q175.35 .B37 2002 REF

Freshwater issues: a reference handbook TD345 .S65 2002 REF

 

Resources on the Librarys Web Page - www.lib.mtu.edu

JRVP Online Catalog

Contains records of materials owned by the MTU Library.

Two search interfaces, Basic and Keyword allow the user to search for items by author, title, subject, call number, ISBN/ISSN, or keyword(s.) Catalog records include bibliographic and location information for items retrieved in your search. Use the Location, Status, Call Number information to find an item in the Library collections.

Online Catalog Tutorials

 

Locating Books & Periodicals

Books are located on the Third Floor in the Main Collection, shelved by Library of Congress call number.

Periodicals in are shelved by Library of Congress call number in these locations:

CURRENT JOURNALS (1^st Floor): Recent issues kept here until bound or reissued in microfilm/fiche.

SERIALS COLLECTION (Garden Level): Older volumes in print format.

MICROFICHE & MICROFILM AREA (2nd Floor, west): Older volumes on microfiche or microfilm.

Electronic journals are found under E-Journals on the Librarys web page.

 

LibraryTutorial on doing research: Understanding the Research Process

 

E-Resources - access to electronic indexes/abstracts, online books, e-journals and selected websites.

From the E-Resource menu select listings by alphabet, topic or collection (e.g. FirstSearch or Thomson Gale.) Use the index databases to locate journal articles, newspaper articles, or reviews on your topic. Some indexes or collections of indexes especially useful for research in this course include:

 

Thompson Gale

Academic OneFile - Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals & reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature & other subjects. "Peer-reviewed publications".

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers - Collection of newspapers from around the country and the world.

 

 

FirstSearch Databases marked with ( * ) allow a Reviewed Journal Phrase search for peer-reviewed journal.

*WilsonSelectPlus- Includes full text articles from over 1400 periodicals covering research in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Business, Education and General Sciences.

Article 1^st -Contains citations for items listed on the table of contents pages of over 12,600 journals in all subject areas.

*PerAbs- Periodical abstracts from both general and academic journals. Allows phrase opinion piece.

Readers Guide Abstracts- Indexes and abstracts popular periodicals from the U.S. and Canada for a wide variety of subjects.

*Social Science Abstracts - Covers periodicals in anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations.

WorldCat - A worldwide library catalog with over 40 million bibliographic records including holdings information, for all types of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. This does NOT index periodicals at the article level.

 

ABI/Inform -Worldwide, in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions.

 

LexisNexis Academic- Business, legal, medical, and current affairs, including extensive U.S. newspaper coverage.

LexisNexis Congressional Search-Congressional publications, bills, laws and regulations.

LexisNexis Statistical- Contains statistical tables, summaries of statistical publications for comprehensive overviews of documents, and links to publications on federal agency web sites.

 

JSTOR Scanned images of scholarly journals dated from with 2-5 years of the present, back to their beginnings in a variety of academic disciplines.

 

CQ Electronic Library CQ Press definitive reference resource for American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.

 

Information Sources on the Web - Consult these sites provided by other institutions:

Identifying Research Articles & Refereed Journals: http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/lsx/tutorial/section3.html

Evaluating Web Sites: http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html

Purdue Owl (Online Writing Lab) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl

Concordia Universitys site on Citation & Style Guides: http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/citations.html