ENGL 499 - Weber
Tracking Down Specific Citations
Use the Online Catalog to determine whether we have a particular book. Use Find A Periodical to determine whether the library owns a particular journal and whether it has the particular issue you need. If we don't have the book or journal you need, request it as an InterLibrary Loan.
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.
Databases
To use the library's databases from off-campus, you will need to login.
ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/INFORM is the premier source of business and corporate information, containing content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, and corporate strategies. Coverage for this database begins in 1971.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
The most comprehensive indexing source in the field of communication, Communication & Mass Media Complete provides citations to articles in over 500 journals. Full-text coverage is provided for over 200 core journals. Though indexing and/or full-text for most journals starts in the 1990s, coverage extends back to the early or mid-twentieth century for several long-running titles.
*Click here to access a guide on using Communication and Mass Media Complete.
General 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. A few journals, especially older dates, give only selective full-text.
Historical Newspapers
This link leads to the New York Times. To search all six historical newspaper titles at once, click on "Select Multiple Databases" and check all six boxes.
*Click here to access a guide on using the Historical Newspapers databases.
JSTOR
Use Advanced Search in JSTOR. I recommend limiting to Articles and perhaps to Item Title.
*Click here to access a guide on using JSTOR.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO is the most comprehensive indexing source for psychology and associated fields in the social sciences, containing "citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations . . . Journal coverage, spanning 1872-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 25 languages." Selected full-text is available via PsycArticles.
WorldCat
An international library catalog, WorldCat contains more than 52 million bibliographic records describing items owned by libraries from all over the United States and around the world. Use Subject searches in WorldCat to get fewer and more relevant results.
Annotated Bibliography Links
The following links lead to academic library Web sites containing tips for writing annotated bibliographies and examples of annotated bib. entries.
Annotated Bibliographies (Purdue University)
How to Write Annotated Bibliographies (Memorial University)
What is an Annotated Bibliography? (Cornell University)
Citing Sources
RefWorks
RefWorks is an online research management tool that allows users to create personal bibliographic databases and use them for a variety of research activities. References are quickly and easily imported from text files or online databases and records can be formatted in hundreds of output styles from APA, MLA, Chicago etc.
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.
APA: Reference Examples for Electronic Source Materials
From the APA Publication Manual Web site, information on citing electronic and Internet sources.
Chicago Style Guide (PDF)
This handout lists Chicago citation style for several basic types of sources.
Contact: Paul Kammerdiner / Email / Phone: 231-591-3037 / Office: FLITE 331
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.
Last update: February 27, 2009