Selected Resources in
RESEARCH & ORAL PRESENTATION
September 16, 2003
Gail Egbers
535-8869
egbersgl@plu.edu
FINDING BOOKS: Our computerized catalog provides access to
the materials in our library. Use the Library of Congress Subject
Headings (large red books) to identify the best subject headings for
your topic. You will be most successful using specific headings.
Subject headings relevant to your topic include:
Unidentified Flying
Objects
Bush, George W.
(George Walker), 1946-
Attention
Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
Panama—Ethnic Relations
Taiwan
Korea—Religion
FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes
and abstracts provide the most efficient subject access to journals and
periodicals.
EBSCOhost (via World Wide Web;
from off-campus you need your epass) A multi-disciplinary database that
indexes roughly 4,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers with 3,600
titles in full text. Of those, nearly 2,600 titles are full text
scholarly (peer reviewed) publications. This academic database provides
full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas - including
social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and education.
Lexis/Nexis (via World Wide Web; from
off-campus you need your epass) Access to a range of
news, business, legal, and reference information. It is particularly
strong in its news coverage, featuring mostly full-text articles from
newspapers around the world.
ProQuest (via PLU Library web
site; from off campus you need your epass) This is a family of databases
that includes some full text journals and newspapers. The
full-text of the New York Times from 1851-present is available through
ProQuest.
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LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodicals are arranged according
to the Library of Congress classification system. Use Journals at PLU
to identify the call number of the journal you need. Current
issues of journals are shelved on the first floor. Older issues
(bound volumes and microfilm) are interfiled with the books in the main
collection on the second (J-Z) and third (A-H) floors. Journals at PLU
also gives you access to the full-text journals we subscribe to. |
REFERENCE MATERIALS
America at the polls,
1960-2000 John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush (ref. JK524.M33 2001)
Economic report of the President (ref. HC106.5.A272)
(http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop/index.html)
Encyclopedia of Chinese
film
(ref. PN1993.5.C4Z53 1998)
Encyclopedia of special
education (ref. LC4007.E53 2000)
Garland encyclopedia of
world music (ref. ML100.G16 1998)
Harvard Medical School
family health guide (ref. RC81.H38 1999)
Pediatric
diagnosis: interpretation of symptoms and signs in children and
adolescents (ref. RJ50.G7 1998)
Presidential elections,
1789-2000 (ref. JK524.P6783 2002)
Presidents:
A Reference History (ref. E176.1.P918
2002)
INTERNET RESOURCES
Not
everything you find on the Internet is good research. For help in
evaluating sources, read “Evaluating Information From The Internet”
(http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/evalinternet.html). Below are
some sources you might want to look at:
ADHD in Children (http://familydoctor.org/handouts/118.html)
Background
Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Children and
Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Syndrome (http://www.chadd.org/)
Kidnapped by
UFOs? (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/)
George W. Bush (http://www.georgewbush.com/)
Politics 1 (http://www.politics1.com/bush.htm)
Teaching Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder (http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/add_adhd/ericE569.html)
White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/)
World Fact Book
(http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/)
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appointment with me for personal research assistance. My
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