University Studies
UNS 101
Basic Library Services
Catalog and Electronic Databases
Library
Catalog
- Use to find books and other materials in the library's
collections.
- Use the search connector AND to connect the words
of a keyword search
- Use the search connector OR to connect synonyms
or related terms.
- Ex: medicine and (alternative or traditional or complementary)
- Use a question mark to search on word roots:
- Ex: culture bound syndrome? will find both singular and plural
forms of the word syndrome
ProQuest
Research Library
- Use to find articles from magazines and journals
- Offers full text for over 1,700 academic, social sciences,
humanities, general science, and education journals
- AND and OR work the same way in
this database. Instead of a question mark, use an asterisk: *
Complete
list of databases
Style Guides
MLA
Style - Modern Language Association
