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| Searching the HELIN catalog (for book and journal titles) |
| HELIN is a consortium of nine public and private academic libraries in Rhode Island including Brown. The HELIN libraries share an online catalog of each library's holdings. The catalog is freely accessible via the World Wide Web at this URL: http://library.uri.edu |
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| Academic Search Premier |
| Academic Search Premier is a large scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. It also offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,052 journals in the collection. The collection includes information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. This database also provides expanded indexing, abstracts and PDF backfiles for more than 100 top scholarly academic journals, dating back as far as 1965 or the first issue published (whichever is more recent); many of the PDF's are searchable. |
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| Lexis-Nexis Academic |
LexisNexis® Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs including:
National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
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| Searching ERIC via EBSCO |
| ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It is the premier database for researching topics in Education. It also covers other topics such as Information Resources, Languages and Linguistics, Social Studies, Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education. |
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Lesson 1: Accessing ERIC
accessing the database
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Lesson 2: Introduction to the ERIC database
database tools and main search screen
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Lesson 3: Searching the database
searching and search techniques
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Lesson 4: ERIC Record details
the result screen
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Lesson 5: Checking for Full Text at PC
locating articles |
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| Language and Literature Tutorials: |
| MLA International Bibliography |
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MLA is a comprehensive index to literature, languages, linguistics, folklore. It contains references to scholarly articles, book chapters and dissertations.
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| Finding scholarly material using MLA |
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Produced by Nicole Chismar,
Student Commons Assistant
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| PsycINFO |
| PsycINFO contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage spans from 1872 to the present and includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. |
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Finding Articles with PsycINFO
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| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts |
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CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. There are links to full text articles as well.
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Finding Articles with Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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Quicktime files are very large and NOT recommended for dial-up connections |
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Citing Sources
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Resources for citing information in bibliographies
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