Finding Electronic Resources in the Library Catalog and Literature Databases

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Finding Electronic Resources in the Library Catalog and Literature Databases

Complete the following steps. You will best learn this material if you complete all of the steps by yourself and ask for help when needed.

Go to the DCCC library page. Click on Library Guides. In the text box at the top of the page, type the name Betty Friedan and find what is found in the DCCC stacks about Friedan to answer the questions below.

Number of books in the DCCC Library about B. Friedan:

Number of Electronic Resources (on B. Friedan) in the DCCC Library:

Number of Reserves (on B. Friedan) in the DCCC Library:

Number of E-Books (on B. Friedan) in the DCCC Library:

REPEAT this process for Toni Morrison. However, after finding how many books there are by or about Toni Morrison, find how many books there are in the category of “African Americans in Literature,” how many books on “African American Women in Literature,” and how many there are in the category of “Criticism and Interpretation.”

Number of books on “African Americans in Literature”:

Title and author of book in this category:

Number of books on “African American Women in Literature”:

Title and author of book in this category:

Number of books on “Criticism and Interpretation”:

Title and author of one book in this category:

Go back to the main Library page and click on the “Library Databases” link. Choose the English & Communication subject from the drop-down menu. Open the “Academic Search Premier” link and do a keyword search to find how many “full text” articles there are for an author you are interested in.

You can read online articles in multiple formats. But, download a “PDF Full Text” version of the article you find to your computer’s desk/laptop that is NOT a “Review.”

Write down the title and author of that article here:

Now it is time for you to continue conducting some research on your own preferred topic for your research paper. Find at least 6-8 full text, peer reviewed articles on your topic from different databases, including “Academic Search Premier.”

Remember, when you open the article link to see if it is relevant to you, you can “Add to Folder,” “Print,” “E-mail,” “Save,” and/or “Cite” these articles in order to save them for future use and begin creating a bibliography for future reference. That is, as you search, you should be creating a rough bibliography (collection of sources) that you can develop and use later.

Database name: Name and author of a full-text article:

Database name: Name and author of a full-text article:

Database name: Name and author of a full-text article:

If you download the pdf to your desk/laptop, name the file after the author’s name and title of the article. This way, you can reference it when you build your bibliography. If you cannot download a pdf version of the article, open/view it in “HTML” and cut and paste the full text of the article into a word document, which you can save as a word file. If you have a flash drive, save the file on your flash drive.

Write down the article author’s name and the title of one article you found here:

Now think about two or three critical topics “related” to your original topic or author. You may wish to research the academic literature on these as well. Write down those “related” topics here if you think they are relevant to your research and use these topics to search for articles related to these topics.

7.____ Log off the computer and submit this completed form to Canvas.

Now you have successfully started your preliminary scholarly research.