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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Immigration
- Finding Articles
- Off-Campus Access
- Journal Locations
- Finding Books
- Citing Sources
- RefBase
HIST 251 - Mehler
Immigration
Use these electronic reference books. Off-campus access requires login.
Countries and Their Cultures
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Immigration / Naturalization Laws
Background History of the United States Naturalization Process
Historical Immigration and Naturalization Legislation
A History of Immigration Law Regarding People of Color
History of Migration and Immigration Laws in the United States
Finding Articles
Academic OneFile
For more contemporary topics, Academic OneFile is a large database with broad subject coverage, containing many full-text resources. Resources include: articles from over 8,000 academic titles in numerous disciplines, magazine articles, information from reference books including subject-area encyclopedias, news from certain national and international newspapers and newsletters, as well as selected transcripts from television and radio broadcasts from NPR, CNN, & CBC, plus selected podcasts from these highly-regarded news sources.
Access World News
For more contemporary topics, Access World News contains the full-text of nearly 1700, mostly English-language, news sources from around the world, with coverage for most beginning in the 90s or 00s.
America: History and Life
Covering the period prehistory-present, America: History and Life contains citations from over 1,700 publications on all aspects of American (United States and Canada) History. Articles published since 1964 are included.
If you have a citation from America: History and Life and need to see if FLITE owns the article in any format, use the Find It links in the database.
If you've determined that Ferris does not own the journals which contain articles indexed in America: History and Life, request the article as an InterLibrary Loan. Generally, InterLibrary Loans take about 5-10 business days to arrive.
*Click here to access a guide on using America: History and Life.
American Periodicals Series: 1740-1900
This database offers digitized pages from over 1,100 periodical titles, including literary journals, published in the United States. A work-in-progress, American Periodical Series currently includes material through the early twentieth century.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch provides full-text articles from over 240 ethnic press newspapers in the United States from 1990-present.
*Click here to access a guide on using Ethnic NewsWatch.
The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945
The Gerritsen Collection is an internationally renowned resource covering women’s history, formerly available only on microfilm. The Gerritsen database contains over 2 million full-text, digitized pages spanning books, periodicals, and pamphlets from 1543-1945.
Historical Abstracts
Covering World History from the period 1450 to the present, Historical Abstracts contains citations for articles published since 1955. Over 22,000 citations are added each year.
If you have a citation from Historical Abstracts and need to see if FLITE owns the article in any format, use the Find It links in the database.
If you've determined that Ferris does not own the journals which contain articles indexed in Historical Abstracts, request the article as an InterLibrary Loan. Generally, InterLibrary Loans take about 5-10 business days to arrive.
Historical Newspapers
The set of six historical newspaper databases contain every article published in each paper up to a point in the recent past. To search all six at once, click into any one of the Historical Newspaper databases, click on Select Multiple Databases, check all six, and then click on Continue. The six are:
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
*Click here to access a guide on using Historical Newspapers.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary database which contains the full-text of articles from core journals in several academic disciplines, including history. Coverage is from each journal's first issue and continues through 2-5 years from the most recently published issues.
*Click here to access a guide on using JSTOR.
Project MUSE
A partnership of several non-profit publishers, Project Muse offers full-text articles from over 250 journals. Full-text coverage for each journal varies but usually starts in the mid- to late- 1990s. Journals in Muse encompass the social sciences, humanities, and the arts; specific fields covered by Muse include history.
*Click here to access a guide on using Project Muse.
Off-Campus Access
For information on accessing databases from off-campus, click here. If you are a Distance Education student, see our Distance Education Library Services page.
Journal Locations
If you have a citation and need to see if FLITE owns the article in any format, use the Find a Periodical database.
These are locations for journals FLITE has in physical formats:
Current Periodicals - Second Floor
Bound Periodicals (1999 - present) - Second Floor
Bound Periodicals (before 1999) - Lower Level
Microforms (microfilm and microfiche) - Second Floor
If FLITE does not own the article in any format, use InterLibrary Loan.
Finding Books
For books in the circulating collection (Main Stacks), use the Online Catalog. Try Keyword searches to ascertain which Subject Headings are appropriate for your topic; you can click on Subject Headings from individual book records or redo the search as a Subject search.
WorldCat
For a broader range of books, try WorldCat, a national library database. Try Subject searches using Subject Headings you've mined from the Ferris Online Catalog. Books in WorldCat that Ferris owns have a Ferris State University flag in the citation. To request a book Ferris doesn't own, click into the title of the book and then on the ILL (InterLibrary Loan) button to make an online request.
Citing Sources
Whenever you are quoting or using information from a source, you must credit or cite that source. Failure to do so is plagiarism which can lead to expulsion from the University.
Citation Style Guide: APA (PDF)
An online version of an APA Quick Reference handout which provides the citation style for several basic types of sources, requires Adoboe Acrobat Reader.
Chicago Citation Guide (PDF)
An online version of FLITE's quick guide for Chicago style citations.
Citation Style Guide: MLA (PDF)
An online version of FLITE's MLA Quick Reference handout, requires Adoboe Acrobat Reader.
RefBase
RefBase is a citation management resource provided by the library. You can create an account and format your citations in a fraction of the time it takes to format citations without this great tool.
Guide to Exporting Citations from Databases to RefBase
Contact: Paul Kammerdiner / Email / Phone: 231-591-3037 / Office: FLITE 331
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Last update: September 21, 2009