Library Resources

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Becoming an 'Expert' User

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Find Books

The online catalog of the Rutgers University Libraries, IRIS, gives students and faculty ready access to over 3 million print volumes in 22 Rutgers collections, plus multimedia and many full-text electronic journals. You may limit searches to DANA. Use the button to intralibrary loan books or use the to obtain articles and non-circulating books from other Rutgers libraries.

Here are some sample searches:

death penalty -- WORDS anywhere (This is a keyword search.)

Kubler-Ross Elizabeth -- AUTHOR (last name first) (This search will retrieve books written by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.)

animal experimentation -- SUBJECT begins with (This search will retrieve books by Library of Congress subject heading.)

JAMA -- PERIODICAL TITLE begins with

Find Journal Articles

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)

This multidisciplinary database indexes periodicals in many different fields and on many different levels, from general interest to scholarly. Students find it a handy place to begin searches because it is partly full text and because it covers so many different subjects. However, you might find that you need something more. Rutgers offers you more than 180 periodical indexes and databases in many subject areas. Don't stop here if you need additional information.

CQ Researcher

"Weekly reports produced by the well-regarded Washington reporting service Congressional Quarterly Inc. Each 24-page report focuses on a specific topic that is perceived as being either newsworthy or an issue of broad interest in the public policy sphere." -- from the Rutgers database information page.

Wilson OmniFile Full Text

"Provides electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of periodicals and journals in all core undergraduate subjects" --from the Rutgers database information page

Find Newspaper Articles

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: the New York Times

Provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 until two years ago.

Access World News

Contains the full text of recent New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and many New Jersey newspapers, including the Star-Ledger. Over 840 U.S. and 1080 international newspapers in all.

Find recent articles in major metropolitan and international newspapers in Factiva or LexisNexis Academic. For items you cannot locate in full text from these sources, we own the following newspapers on microfilm on the Lower Level:

New York Times

Wall Street Journal

Christian Science Monitor

Los Angeles Times

Washington Post

Newark Star Ledger

Subject Research Guide: Newspapers (Natalie Borisovets and Ka-Neng Au, Dana Library, Rutgers)

A guide to newspapers online throughout the world; cost of access noted if known.
[http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/newspapers/newslib.shtml]

Additional Rutgers Indexes and Databases

Find scholarly periodical articles in literature, film, and media studies using Literature Resource Center, Humanities Full Text, MLA International Bibliography, Communication & Mass Media Complete, or other appropriate index.

Find scholarly periodical articles in social sciences using the Social Sciences Full Text, Sociological Abstracts, Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), Education Index/Abstracts/Full Text, PsycINFO, or other appropriate index.

Follow policy and regulatory trends using CQ Researcher, Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, or other appropriate database. For laws and regulations, use the "Legal Research" link in LexisNexis Academic or go to FindLaw (not Rutgers restricted).

Find scholarly periodical articles on religion using the ATLA Religion Database; find articles on philosophy, including ethics, using Philosopher's Index.

Find scholarly periodical articles in core history sources using the Humanities Full Text. Find more scholarly periodical articles in American history using America: History and Life and in world history using Historical Abstracts.

Find articles on economics and business using Business Source Premier, EconLit, or the Business and Industry Database.

Find articles in science and medicine using Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost), General Science Full Text, PubMed,(Medline is another version; you might need to refresh the screen to enter the database), CINAHL, or other appropriate database.

Four Ways to Find Articles

1. The article is linked to full text in your database.



2. Click on to search for the article in IRIS, the Rutgers catalog, automatically.



3. Consult the list of Electronic Journals [http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/ejournals/ejournals.shtml]



4. Search IRIS, the Rutgers catalog, to find all owned copies of an article in a periodical in electronic, paper, or microform.
• Go to the Rutgers University Libraries homepage.



• Click on Search IRIS and Other Catalogs to find the periodicals owned by the Rutgers Libraries. Search PERIODICAL TITLE begins with; this title is often found in periodical indexes under "Source".
  
  
• Look at the periodical record. (The online record for a given periodical title may be separate from the print record, but is usually found within the non-microform record as electronic access.)

Web Resources

FindLaw

Well-organized site for legal material on the Web. Use with caution if you are not an attorney, but the site links to a wealth of material.
[http://www.findlaw.com]

CEO Express

A free Website dedicated to business and general news. Extensive coverage of many kinds of online news sources.
[http://www.ceoexpress.com].

Searching and Evaluating the Internet

Internet Search Strategies (Rice University)

Information about search engines, Web page evaluation, and citation of electronic resources.
[http://www.rice.edu/fondren/erc/howto/search.html]

Evaluation of Internet Resources (Ka-Neng Au, Rutgers University)

Clear and to the point, with great links to other evaluation pages. Emphasizes the evaluation of the whole web site, not just an individual page.
[http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/guides/evaluate.htm]

Evaluate Web Pages (Widener University)

Tate and Alexander, librarians at Widener University, were pioneers in the art of formal Web page evaluation. They advocated five basic criteria (accuracy, authority, objectivity, coverage, currency) with variations in approach for different types of Web pages. This is an updated version of their work.
[http://www3.widener.edu/Academics/Libraries/ Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659/]

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library)

Presents an excellent checklist of criteria and questions relevant to Web page evaluation.
[http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm]

MLA Citation Style

MLA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue University Online Writing Laboratory)

Based on the print MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 2nd edition [Dana Reference Desk #276] and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition.
[DANA REF LB2369.G53 2003] from the Modern Language Association. [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/]

dianahacker.com (Website to accompany Bedford St. Martin's guides)

Excellent, clear information about MLA style.
[http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.html]

Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style

Up-to-date information from the Modern Language Association itself.
[http://www.mla.org/style_faq]