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CST 105 - Introduction to Communication Studies

Basic Library Services
Finding Background Information
Finding Books, Articles and Websites
Additional Resources

Basic Library Services

• Reference Librarians are here to help! Visit us, call us, email us, or chat with us!
• Library hours
• Finding It! A Research Skills Tutorial: A self-paced tutorial in eight chapters. Learn how to prepare for a research paper, pick the right research tools, search for information in our online catalog, in periodical indexes and on the web, avoid plagiarism and cite sources!
• Collaboratories: Information about places for groups to study in the library.

Finding Background Information

Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Provides the full text of many encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and directories on a variety of topics.
• Search for your topic by typing it into the Search box or choose a book by clicking "View Publications" beside the appropriate subject heading.

Finding Books, Articles and Websites

Library Catalog

• Use to find books and other materials in the library's collections

Academic Search Premier

• Indexes and abstracts approximately 3,000 scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas.
• Full text available for over 1,200 journals; some of these date back to 1990.
• How to find articles in scholarly journals.

ProQuest Research Library

• Use to find articles in magazines and journals.
• Includes articles from both popular magazines and scholarly journals.
• Includes some full text from over a thousand magazines and periodicals.

Opposing Viewpoints

• Provides background information on many controversial issues, as well as arguments presented by supporters and opponents of each issue.
• Includes full-text articles, reference sources, statistics, primary documents, images, web links, and more.

Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)

• Includes articles from both popular magazines and scholarly journals.
• Includes the full text of over five thousand magazines and periodicals

Additional Resources

eHow
"Clear Instructions on How To Do (just about) Everything"

America's Newspapers via NewsBank

• America's Newspapers provides the full text of fourteen North Carolina papers and eleven national papers.
• Includes the Greensboro News & Record, Raleigh News & Observer, and Charlotte Observer.
• Newspapers and dates covered

Guidelines for Evaluating Web Resources

• Use these guidelines to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality material. From our online tutorial Finding It!

Web Directories

APA Style Reference Sheet

Page Author: Amy Harris
First-Year Instruction Coordinator