Identifying and gathering materials for research

• To locate books use the Online Catalog.
• To locate magazine articles, begin your search with these periodical databases: Academic Search Elite/EBSCOhost; WilsonSelectPlus/FirstSearch.
• For newspaper articles, search Lexis-Nexis. Select the news category and when at the search boxes screen select general news and major papers to set up your search.
• The library's References and Text web page includes Reference databases to biographies (American National Biography and Biography Reference Bank) and dictionaries from Oxford English Dictionary database and Oxford Reference Online Premium.
• Need government info? Select Google Uncle Sam at http://www.google.com/ig/usgov

For each resource you use, create a list of possible subject words or keywords that will bring up results. Remember, different resources may require different search terms. If you are utterly confused, ask the library staff for help. Remember, if you login at the Online Catalog, you can view and access many of the library's databases on or off campus.