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Library Research for COMP 100 (Professor Shusette)
Getting Started
- Where should I look?
Choosing the best resources - How should I look?
Developing a search strategy
Places To Look (Resources)
Books
Library Catalog -- search the library catalog for books, journal titles, media and other materials.
Periodical Articles
Search the library's databases to find journal, magazine and newspaper articles.
News and Current Issues
- LexisNexis Academic -- Full text news, medical, legal & business sources.
- Proquest Newspapers -- over 500 US and international newspapers full-text
- More: Information Sources: News + Current Issues
Magazine and Journal Articles
- Academic Search Elite -- a general/multi-subject database providing scholarly and non-scholarly articles on a wide variety of topics -- an excellent place to begin looking for periodical articles
- InfoTRAC Onefile -- another general/multi-subject database
- Computer Database -- full-text articles from over 300 computer magazines and journals
- More: Information Sources: General Multi-Subject and Information Sources: Computer Science
Online Resources
- CQ Researcher -- explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Good for general background information and discovering overriding themes.
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center -- contains "Viewpoint Essays" discussing both sides of controversial issues, as well as journal, magazine and newspaper articles, references sources, statistics, multimedia and websites. Warning: limited number of concurrent users.
Citing Your Work
- Why do I need to cite the sources I use?
Avoiding plagiarism - Online Citation Style Guides -- style sheets and sample bibliographies for MLA Style
Librarian
This page was created and is maintained by Andrew Klein, Science Librarian (x4130, andrew.klein@csun.edu)
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