ENGL 250 - Jablonski

Finding Journal Articles

To find journal articles on a particular topic, use one or more of the databases available on the FLITE Web site. These databases provide indexing to thousands of journal titles.

General OneFile
Large full-text database with over 50 million articles covering a wide variety of subjects with articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers. Always the best place to start.

WilsonSelect Plus
Completely full-text and includes articles from subject fields including science, humanities, education and business with coverage from 1994 to the present. Use as a backup to OneFile.

Issues and Controversies/Facts On File
Select "Issues and Controversies" tab on the top right to look at in-depth investigation of today's hot topics.

Opposing Viewpoints
Essays, magazines, journals, newspapers, and other resources showing both sides of controversial issues.

Other databases are sorted by subject from the Database Access page.
Please read Off Campus Database Access for information on searching from home.

Other Online Information

FLITE now offers two online encyclopedia collections: CREDO Reference and Oxford Reference Online. These sources offer hundreds of easily searched authoratative titles, use them anytime you would use Wikipedia.

Finding Books at FLITE

For books and documents in the circulating collection (Main Stacks), use the Online Catalog. Search either using keyword or subject.

Citing Sources

Citations - a FLITE guide
A guide to understanding citations, and a link to different online citation management tools that can help you input your sources and create your bibliographies.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism tutorials and self-help guides, plus a link to step-by-step citation assistance.

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Last update: September 24, 2009