Lib sci2 spring-1a
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This document provides an overview of research skills and resources available at Catholic University libraries, including the ALADIN catalog for finding books and journals, article databases for journal articles, CUA ejournals, interlibrary loan for materials not available, and contact information for research assistance. New databases mentioned are Web of Science for citations and Nineteenth Century Collections Online for full-text sources from 1789-1914.
Lib sci2 spring-1a
- 2. CUA LIBRARIES Mullen Library Science/Engineering Nursing and Biology Music Physics
- 3. 1/11/2013 Use for simple searches
- 5. ALADIN CATALOG: FINDING BOOKS AND JOURNALS AVAILABLE IN THE WRLC CATALOG Only use for simple searches
- 6. FINDING SPECIFIC BOOK AND JOURNAL TITLES AND DOING COMPLEX SEARCHES
- 7. ALADIN CATALOG: SIMPLE AND ADVANCED SEARCH
- 8. FINDING ARTICLES: ARTICLE DATABASES ARE WHERE YOU GO TO FIND JOURNAL ARTICLES
- 9. NEW DATABASES Web of Science includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science provides "Cited Reference Search" and subject searching through both "quick" and "advanced" searches. Our Web of Science subscription includes citations and references for articles in almost 9000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals published from 2002 to the present. Web of Science provides complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts, and cited references. Coverage is in the sciences (more than 6000 journals), followed by social sciences (approximately 1800 journals), and arts and humanities (approximately 1100 journals). For impact factor information about specific journals, users are directed to the index "Journal Citation Reports. Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) provides full-text, fully searchable content from a wide range of primary sources for the long" 19th century, 1789-1914. NCCO indexes the full text of books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, diaries, photographs, statistics, literature, government reports, treaties, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages. Released incrementally beginning in 2012, NCCO's first four topical collections include: British Politics and Society; Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; and European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection.
- 10. FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES: USEFUL DATABASES ACM Digital Library Core Package Library Literature and Information Science Index Emerald Journals Web of Science CINAHL Plus with Full Text MEDLINE PsycINFO
- 11. CU EJOUNALS: WHERE YOU GO TO FIND OUR ONLINE JOURNALS WHEN YOU KNOW THE JOURNAL TITLE
- 12. IF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DOES NOT HAVE THE MATERIAL YOU NEED CLS: The Consortium Loan Service (CLS) provides eligible borrowers with materials not available at the Catholic University libraries GW, GA, HO, GM, AU, UDC, MU, GT ILL: Interlibrary Loan provides eligible borrowers with materials not available in the Catholic University libraries or the WRLC Consortium
Editor's Notes
- #3: Q1: What does it mean to be Information Literate? Q2: Tell me some of your frustrations when it comes to research: Id like to show you a few tips for how to navigate the library website (accessible both on and off campus).