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PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG (iLink)
Look in the online catalog for books on your topic. You may
search by author, title, subject or keyword. You can also search for government
documents and vertical file items by use of the Public Access Catalog.
You can access Public
Access Catalog by going to http://www.se.edu/lib/
and selecting the Find and then
Books/Library Catalog.
You can search for an item using
the following options:
For example:
REFERENCE SOURCES
Search the reference collection for brief facts,
biographical information, addresses, telephone numbers, statistical
information, articles in encyclopedias, general and subject, on all aspects of
human knowledge. Much information is included in the general encyclopedias,
such as Compton’s, Academic American, or World Book.
However, more specialized information is included in subject encyclopedias.
Additional information can be found in these sources:
GENERAL
| R 070.442 Ed4c | CQ Researcher This resource contains reports about topics of current interest and is an excellent starting place for term papers. CQ Researcher is also available online at: http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/ |
| R 070.442 Is7 | Issues and Controversies on File |
| R 303.49003 En1 | Encyclopedia of the Future |
| R 909.82 F11o | Facts on File Presents summaries of news and events (Covers 1941 to the present) |
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
| R 364.03 | Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice |
| R 301.0973 En3 | Encyclopedia of American Social History |
| R 362 7603 C54e | Encyclopedia of Child Abuse |
| R 306.097303 K29e | Encyclopedia of Modern American Social Issues |
| R 306.803 En2 | Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family |
| R 303 6250904 En1c | Encyclopedia of World Terrorism |
| R 323.04 D54e | Encyclopedia of American Activism: 1960 to the Present | R 321.09403 En1g | The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions |
LAW
| R 348.7303 W52w | West's Encyclopedia of American Law |
| R 303.603 D54e | Encyclopedia of Violence |
| R 346.73034 Sm7l | Law of Defamation |
| R 344.730103 An4L | Labor, Employment and the Law |
| R 344.730703 T21e | Education and the Law |
| R 346.73013503 Ar6c | Children, Young Adults, and the Law |
| R 346.7304403 D71c | Conservation and the Law |
BIOGRAPHY
| R 920.073w | Great Lives from History |
| R 920.02 M17b2 | Encyclopedia of World Biography |
| R 796 B52 | Biographical Dictionary of American Sports |
| R 925.1 B52 | Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians |
| R 920.073 Am3g | American National Biography |
| R 920.02 C93b | Current Biography |
HISTORY
| R 973.713 En3 | Encyclopedia of the Confederacy |
| R 973.003 En1 | Encyclopedia of the United States In the Twentieth Century |
| R 970.02 Rn2 | Encyclopedia of the American Colonies |
| R 973 Am 7a | The Annals of America |
| R 975.003 En1 | The Encyclopedia of Southern History |
| R 973.0496 En1 | African-American Culture and History |
| R 973.03 D 56 | Dictionary of American History |
| R 978 En1 | Encyclopedia of the American West |
| R 959 .704303 En1t | Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War |
| R 306.36203 H62r | The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery |
| R 301.0973 En3 | Encyclopedia of American Social History |
SCIENCE, MEDICINE & THE ENVIRONMENT
| R 574.529 Of3 | The Official World Wildlife Fund Guide to Endangered Species of North America |
| R 363.7 St3e | Environmental Sourcebook |
| R 338.9 St1 | State of the World Contains reports on water, freshwater ecosystems, preserving agricultural resources, and other global environmental topics. |
| R 628.03 M17en3 | McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Environmental Science & Engineering |
| R 628.4458 R24 | Recycling Sourcebook |
| R 621.483 N88d | Nuclear Power Plants Worldwide |
| R 363.7 En8 | Environmental Encyclopedia |
| R 550 M27 | Magill's Survey of Science | R 616.02 P56 | Physicians' Guide to Rare Diseases |
| R 610 M543b | The Merck Manual |
| R 612.003 En1d2 | Encyclopedia of Human Biology |
| R 616 H34b | Health Reference Series Excellent series on health issues |
| In storage | Science Year Contains articles on scientific discoveries, ideas, and research written simply. |
| R 608 W89 | World of Invention |
| R 509.03 W89 | World of Scientific Discovery |
| R 591.52903 Se4g | The Grolier World Encyclopedia of Endangered Species |
STATISTICAL INFORMATION
| R 317.3 Un3s | Statistical Abstract of the United States |
| R 317.3 Un3s | Statistical Abstract of the United States |
| R 317.3 W89w | The World Almanac and Book of Facts Contains statistics on sports, entertainment, business |
| R 317.3 M49n | The New Book of American Rankings Comparative statistics for states |
| R 310 K96i4 | The Illustrated Book of World Rankings |
| R 370.973 D56 | Digest of Education Statistics |
REGULAR COLLECTION
| upstairs | Opposing Viewpoints Series These series can be used for argumentative papers. Each book in the series takes a controversial topic and discusses the issues and presents both sides of the argument. There are over 100 titles in this series. Also these series include the At Issue series and the Current Controversies series. |
| upstairs | Contemporary World Issues Series This is an excellent source for gaining the grasp of a topic. Each book in the series covers a different topic. Each topic covered in the series has the following: an overview section, which has a discussion of the main questions being asked or arguments raised about the topic, then a chronology section, a biographical sketches section of the main figures in the topic, facts and statistics section, documents and reports, laws and legislation pertaining to the topic, and a directory of agencies and organizations associated with the topic. |
Unlike books, the contents of journals are not available in the SE library catalog. So where are they located? They are located in magazine and journal indexes. Magazine and journal indexes assign a subject to each article in each journal indexed in the magazine and journal index. Until the 1990's most magazine and journal indexes were in paper, now they are almost all on the Internet. Some of these journal indexes on the Internet index popular magazines, other scholarly, while others are devoted to one subject area, NO Journal Index indexes every journal that is published, so they are selective.
Step One: Look in a Periodical Index
A periodical index is a publication that indexes the content of periodicals. There are many different periodical indexes, some general and some subject specific. One thing needs to be made clear: There is not any periodical index that indexes every single periodical being published today. So each index is selective in what periodicals it indexes. Periodical indexes tend to index the most important or most popular or most respected or well known periodicals.
PAPER PERIODICAL INDEXES
For many years periodical indexes were published in paper, like a book. They would usually come out every few months with an update, and then come out at the end of the year with an annual cumulation. Paper periodical indexes are cumbersome to use and take some take to look at every year, but they can contain information on many valuable articles written sometimes years ago, and paper indexes are valuable places to search for topics in music, drama, art, literature and history.
| Basement | International Index An index to periodical literature in the social sciences and humanities. The index begins in 1907 and ends in 1964. |
| basement | Social Sciences and Humanities Index
An index to articles appearing in several hundred magazines and journals. Coverage begins in 1965 and continues to 1974. |
| Basement | Humanities Index |
| Basement | Social Sciences Index |
| Basement | Art Index |
| Basement | Poole's Index to Periodical Literature A guide to periodical literature published in 1802-1906.This is a hard index to use, so see a reference librarian. |
| Basement | Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature A general subject index to about 200 popular magazines. We have this index from 1915 to the present. |
| Basement | New York Times Index Index to the New York Times, a major national newspaper. The library has the New York Times from 1851 to the present on microfilm. The index is subject arranged. Paper indexes begin in 1929, and from 1851 to 1928 they are on microfiche. There is an online Index to the New York Times available at: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html |
ONLINE PERIODICAL INDEXES
In the 1980's many Paper Periodical Indexes became digitized and now most periodical indexes are online on the Internet. In this form they can still be called indexes, but they are usually referred to as DATABASES.Why use online databases?
There is a disadvantage to online databases for those who are researching topics in history or literature
Some Online Databases that the SE Library Has
| FirstSearch | Article First
This database contains citations to articles that appear in journals in science, technology, social science, business and humanities, and popular culture. With over 16,000 journals indexed, this is one of the largest journal databases in the SE Library's collection. It covers from 1990 to the present, and is updated daily. |
| EBSCOHost | Academic Search Premier
The SE Library has subscribed to a new database called Academic Search Premier. This database has been designed specifically for academic institutions and EBSCOHost claims that, it is “the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database.” Indeed, it is larger that the database that it is replacing, Academic Search Elite. It contains full text for nearly 4,550 journals and magazines, whereas Elite has only 2050. It has indexing and abstracting for more than 8,200 titles. It contains full text for many journals back to the 1990’s and for one hundred journals there is full text back to 1975. |
| EBSCOhost, and FirstSearch | ERIC ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a very large education database that has been around since 1966. It was funded by the U.S. Department of Education until 2003. It contains over 1 million records in two types: (1) ERIC Documents, which are classroom guides, results of research not published, dissertations, manuals, results or research, and (2) Journal articles from almost 1000 journals. Many of the ERIC Documents from 1993-to the present are available full-text online. There is another online version at the Department of Education website, at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ For more information on ERIC, go to the following website: http://www.se.edu/lib/eric.htm |
| EBSCOhost | Professional Development Collection "Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world." |
| EBSCOhost | PsychInfo "PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 98 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages." |
| EBSCOhost | PsycARTICLES PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 134,000 articles from 63 journals - 50 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 13 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present." |
| EBSCOhost | Communication and Mass Media Complete "Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields." |
| FirstSearch | H.W. Wilson Select Full Text
Covers 1,600 periodicals from 1994 to the present. Contains records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, and Business Abstracts and other Wilson databases. It is updated weekly. An important feature of this database is that all articles are full text. |
| EBSCOhost | MasterFILE Premier "Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 85,827 biographies, 105,789 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost." |
| EBSCOhost | MAS Ultra School Edition "Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines." |
| EBSCOhost | Education Research Complete "Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals, and includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers." |
| FirstSearch | MLA Bibliography
This database is compiled by the Modern Language Association, and is one of the top indexes of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. It contains over 1.3 million citations to over 6,500 periodicals and other publications. It covers from 1963 to the present, and is updated 9 times a year. |
| EBSCOhost | SocINDEX
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,918,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 428 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 136 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers." There should be many articles in this database dealing with discrimination issues. |
| ABI-Inform | ABI-Inform
This is a large business database, and indexes over 3000 journals, magazines and newspapers. It would also contain many articles on discrimination in the business world. |
| EBSCOhost | Business Source Premier
"Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost." |
| EBSCOhost | Newspaper Source
"Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 28 U.S. and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 U.S. newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. |
| EBSCOhost | Regional Business News
"This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis." |
| EBSCOhost | Military and Government Collection
"Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles." |
| EBSCOhost | Health Source-Consumer Edition
"This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines." |
| EBSCOhost | Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
"This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names." |
| EBSCOhost | Topic Search
"This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources." |
| Criminal Justice Periodicals Index | Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
This is a database containing journals from criminal justice. |
| EBSCOhost | Middle Search Plus Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and Junior high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost |
| EBSCOhost | Primary Search Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. |
| online | NEWSBANK http://infoweb.newsbank.com This is a database of newspaper articles from newspapers published in major cities in the United States, and also the world. |
| online | Oklahoman Archives
This is the archives of the Daily Oklahoman newspaper, with access to the full content of the newspaper from September 1901 to the present. Access through the Electronic Resources pages at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm |
1. Where the Databases are located
These databases are all to be found on the SE Library's Electronic Resources Page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm
2. What EBSCOHost and FirstSearch are
The word EBSCOhost or FirstSearch to the right of the database name in the table above indicates the name of the database vendor where you can find these databases. If you look at the list of links on the ELectronic Resources page, you will see the
links organized by the type of database that they are. You will find EBSCOhost and FirstSearch under the listing of databases called Periodical Databases. When you go down the list, you will see
at least two links for both EBSCOhost and FirstSearch. The first link is for those that are on the SE campus. Click on that link, and you will be taken to the list of databases under EBSCOhost or FirstSearch.
The second link is the off campus link. This link is necessary to use if you are off of the SE Campus. This link takes you to a page where you will be asked to type in a userid or authorization number, and a password.
The userid or authorization number and password to gain access to EBSCOhost and FirstSearch is available at the SE Library Reference Desk, and also is on the proxy server.
Step Four: Check to see if the the SE Library has the journal in paper
Step Five: Use InterLibrary Loan to obtain the article from another college library that has the journal that you want
1. Obtain an Interlibrary loan form from the circulation desk or go to an online InterLibrary Loan form at:
http://www.se.edu/lib/illjournalreq.htm for a journal article and http://www.se.edu/lib/illbookreq.htm
for Interlibrary loaning a book.
2. Fill out the form, take note that those fields of the form that have an asterisk in front of them are required fields that are needed to send the information via e-mail.
Click submit after filling out the form.
3. The process of receiving something from InterLibrary loan takes about 4 days to two weeks, so if InterLibrary Loans are needed,
| Basement | Essay and General Literature Index
This is an index to essays found in books that contains collections of essays with particular emphasis to materials in the social sciences and humanities. It begins coverage in 1900 and goes to 2002. |
| FirstSearch | Proceedings
Contains over 149,000 citations of every congress, symposium, conference, and workshop from all over the world that was received at the British Library from October 1993 to the present. This database is updated twice a week. |
| FirstSearch | PapersFirst
Contains citations to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. To be included the information must have been received by the British Document Supply Center. It covers from October 1993 to the is updated monthly. It has 4.9 million records and is updated 24 times a year. |
| FirstSearch | WorldCat
A database of over 52 million records of materials representing 400 languages, such as: books, magazines, films, slides, journals, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, videocassettes, audio-cassettes, computer data files, and computer programs, that have been cataloged by OCLC members worldwide. The records cover items from 1000 BC to the present, and this database is updated daily. |
| FirstSearch | GPO Monthly Catalog
This contains citations to 522,000 publications of the United States Government, such as: Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by an executive department or federal agency (defense, education, justice) The database covers documents that have been published since July 1976. |
RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET