Where to find material for your assignment at FLITE:

Evaluating Information

Internet Evaluation

• Let's Go Whale Watching!
• Petite Lap Giraffes

Use one of these guides to help evaluate websites.

Internet Resources Evaluation
Web Page Evaluation Checklist from University of California at Berkeley

Check out urban legends, hoaxes, and misinformation.
Snopes.com

Database Searching: Finding Articles

To find journal articles on a particular topic, use one or more of the databases available on the FLITE Web site. These are some to get you started.

General OneFile
Very large database with a lot of full-text articles in a wide variety of subjects, General OneFile contains magazines, journals, and newspaper articles.

CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher supplies 12,000-word reports, investigated and written by seasoned journalists. 44 reports covering timely events are published every year. providing in-depth, unbiased coverage of a pressing political or social issue. (Limited to three users at once.)

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Experts debate current events and hot topics, giving opinions from both sides in politics, social issues, health, money, and religion.

Newspapers and News Sources

Suggestions to retrieve better/more results:

• Search topic as both a keyword and subject
• Combine terms with AND or OR
• Set date ranges limit to a specific time
• Use quotes for phrases

• Subject searching: Search for the subject of your topic.
  Example:
  Topic: German Immigration
  Subject: German Americans
  
  
• Keyword searching: Search for keywords on your topic.
  Example:
  Topic: The invention of the car
  Keyword(s): automobile history

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

Getting the Article

If HTML or PDF full text options are available, click the link to go directly to the full text.

If full text is not an option:

Click the "Find It", link or button;




Select red GO button.

Getting Help

Contact: Kristy Motz / Email / Phone: 231-591-3625 / Office: FLITE 140H

Don't forget, you are welcome to come to the Oval Information Desk and ask for help any time. You can also call us 231-591-3602 or chat with us.

If you would like to make an appointment for a one-on-one research consultation with a librarian, use this online form.

Last update: September 15, 2011