COMM 121- Thomson- Events

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Finding Books

To find books in FLITE, try either Subject or Keyword searches in the online catalog.

Suggested search: (tip: sort by reverse year)

• The historical event you are looking for
• A larger event it may be associated with (example: search NASA to find the Challenger Explosion)

Book Locations:

• Main Stacks, Call Numbers A-H - Lower Level
• Main Stacks, Call Number J-Z - Third Floor
• Reference - First Floor
• Government Documents - Second Floor

Finding Journal Articles

To find journal articles on a particular topic, it's necessary to use one or more of the databases available on the FLITE Web site. These databases cumulatively provide indexing to thousands of journal titles. A few of the databases provide full-text (content of the articles is found directly within the database), but most only provide citations (description of where the article originally appeared in print).

Suggested Databases

Academic OneFile
A very large, full-text database with over 50 million articles covering a myriad of subjects, General OneFile indexes both newspapers and journals. Coverage is from 1980 to present.

Wilson Select Plus
This completely full-text database includes articles from a wide range of subject fields including science, humanities, education and business. Coverage is from 1994 to the present.

JSTOR
JSTOR, or Journal Storage, offers full-text articles from core journals in 26 academic disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage in JSTOR extends from the first issue of each journal.

Newspaper articles

Newspapers often write on current issues. Check out our Newspaper links page including:

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (120 Full-text Newspapers)

Access World News

Lexis-Nexis Newspapers

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Last Update: September 4, 2007