ENGL 250 - Burmeister
Brainstorming
The Research Process (~ 3 min.)
Will he discover terrifying secrets and great search skills? The Spybrarian stars in Ouroboros The Tutorial: Seven Steps to Enlightened Research.
General Databases
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.
Academic 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.
Other databases are sorted by subject from the Database Access page.
Please read Off Campus Database Access for information on searching from home.
Business Databases
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.
ABI Inform Global
Business Newsbank
Other databases are sorted by subject from the Database Access page.
Please read Off Campus Database Access for information on searching from home.
Newspaper Article Databases
Newspapers often write on current issues. Check out FLITE newspapers including:
Access World News
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (120 Full-text Newspapers)
Lexis-Nexis Newspapers
E-Reference
Internet Evaluation
There are many webpages on the Internet which seem to provide quality information, but be aware that many provide less than valuable or credible information. Check out these websites for some real examples.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative encyclopedia. Anyone can create or edit content, thereby helping to create the largest popular reference work on the internet.
Because of its collaborative nature the information on Wikipedia is often suspect in terms of it authority and accuracy. Use Wikipedia only to gain a basic understanding of a concept and an entry's bibilography to find reliable research materials.
Online Encyclopedias
As an alternative to Wikipedia FLITE Library 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.
Books
For books and documents in the circulating collection (Main Stacks), use the Online Catalog. Search either using keyword or subject.
Use MelCat to look up books in other Michigan Libraries. MelCat items will be delivered to the circulation desk and you will receive an Email when the items arrive. If materials you need aren't available via MelCat try Inter-Library Loan.
Images
Be sure to use Creative Commons licensed images or request usage permission from the photgrapher/license holder.
Google Advanced Image Search- Change the "Usage Rights" drop-down menu to read, "labled for reuse". If you'd like to edit the photo choose, "labled for reuse with modification.
Flickr.com Advanced Search- Click the checkbox to,"Only search within Creative Commons licensed content."
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, legally consistent with the rules of copyright. Creative Commons licenses help you keep your copyright while allowing certain uses of your work — a “some rights reserved” copyright.
Creative Commons Licenses combine four main sets of conditions:
Attribution by: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.
Share Alike: You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
Non-Commercial: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for non-commercial purposes only.
No Derivative Works: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN COPYRIGHT!!!
Project Guidelines
For this project the "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License" is recommended. Follow these steps
1. You may copy the following format for your powerpoint.
2. Replace the sample powerpoint title and author name with your own title and name.
3. Remove all the italics, they're just to indicate what you replace.
4. Replace the hyperlink to Student Dawg with a link to your personal FerrisConnect page.
My Powerpoint Title by Student Dawg is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Citations
Citation Style Guide: MLA (PDF)
An online version of FLITE's MLA Quick Reference handout, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
FLITE Library MLA Image Citation Style Guide
Look here for formatting guidelines used when citing Creative Commons images.
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.
Research Help
Librarians are available to help answer research questions and provide other library assistance. You can find librarians at the Oval Information Desk located on the First Floor of FLITE, by phone at 231-591-3602, by email (netref at (@) ferris.edu), or via chat http://www.ferris.edu/library/reference/helppagechat.html.
Or, you can make an appointment for a research consultation with a librarian - one-on-one personal library help for any course.
More information is available at FLITE help.
Contact: Mari Kermit-Canfield/ Email / Phone: 231-591-3636 / Office: FLITE 140H
Last update: September 13, 2010