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| R 345.22 Ok4c | Oklahoma Statutes
This source contains all laws of a general and permanent nature including laws and amendments passed by the first regular and first extraordinary sessions of the 48th legislature. Latest edition is the 2001 edition, and there are annual supplements which cover changes in the law after 2001. The statutes are arranged by title and indexed by subject. |
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| R 348.7323 Un3c | United States Code
Codified text of the U.S. laws. This is the official edition of the code containing
all the general and permanent laws of the United States. The last complete
edition is the 2000 edition. It is arranged by title (subject) and section
number and is supplemented annually. The titles that are most concerned
with business are:
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| AE 2.111 | United States Statutes at Large
The official text of all public laws passed by the Congress of the United States. You would want to use this if you wanted to see the law as it was originally passed by Congress. The public laws in this set are organized by the number of the Congress that passed them. |
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| (Bryan County Law Library) | United States Code Annotated
This is the unofficial version of the United States Code which contains important references to court decisions in addition to the text of the laws. It is updated more frequently than the official version and is more useful from a reference standpoint. |
| AE 2.106/3 | Code of Federal Regulations
This source provides a subject arrangement of current regulations promulgated by federal agencies. Codified text. It is organized by title. Some of the titles that are of interest to Commercial & Business are: Title 15: Commerce & Foreign Trade |
| AE 2.106.55 | Federal Register
Published every business day. Contains updates on legislation, rules, and regulations, Presidential documents, proposed rules, notices of hearings, announcements new federal grants, and much more. |
| R 348.73 Un3ca | United States Reports
This is the official bound edition of the United States Supreme Court decisions. Before they are bound the official Supreme Court decisions are printed individually and are called slip opinions. The most recent years of slip opinion that have not been bound are located in the Government Documents collection on Floor 2A. |
| R 348.73413 Su7 | Supreme Court Reporter
Published by West Publishing Company. Contains cases decided in United States Supreme Court. Library has from 1912 to 1978. |
| R 348.73413 Un3u | United States Supreme Court Digest
This contains an outline of the law by topic that has been developed by West Publishing Company, the publisher of federal and court cases. This outline of the law is called the West Key Number System. It gives citations to judicial cases in the U.S. Supreme Court Reports, Supreme Court Reporter and Corpus Juris Secundum. Also gives citation to any legislation pertaining to subject. Volumes 1A-1D: Descriptive Word Index
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| (Bryan County Law Library) | Pacific Reporter
This source contains judicial cases from the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Oklahoma. |
| (Bryan County Law Library) | Corpus Juris Secundum
This source is a complete restatement of the entire American law as developed by all reported cases, by William Mack and Donald J. Kiser. It is indexed by the West Key system and gives references to numerous sources. |
| (Bryan County Law Library) | Federal Reporter
This source contains cases that have been tried in the U.S. court of appeals and the U.S. District Courts. |
| (Bryan County Law Library) | Oklahoma Digest
This source contains judicial opinions reported in chronological order for Oklahoma. It is indexed by the West Key number system. |
| (Bryan County Law Library) | West Federal Digest
This source contains judicial decisions of the lower federal courts. |
| R 348.7303 G94 | West's Encyclopedia of Law
Designed to meet the layperson's needs for basic legal information. Contains articles on legal principles and concepts, biographies of important people in legal matters, accounts of famous trials, important documents and laws. |
| R 340.03 B56b6 | Black's Law Dictionary
Provides definitions of the words and terms used in the law. |
| R 342.73 En5l | Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
Contains articles on doctrinal concepts of constitutional law, (such as federalism, freedom of speech, age discrimination, the establishment clause), people associated with the development and interpretation of the constitution, articles on all amendments to the constitution, famous court cases, public laws (statutes, treaties, and executive orders) (such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990), plus articles on constitutional history. Each article has a bibliography of other sources that can be used for further information. Also has appendices which have the complete text of the constitution and a glossary of legal terms. |
| (Bryan County Law Library) | American Jurisprudence
A modern comprehensive text statement of the entire American law, state and federal. This is an encyclopedia type source with volumes that are indexed by a subject index and is kept up to date by supplements. |
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 and abstracts 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
"Designed specifically for academic institutions, Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,500 journals, including 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,250 journals in the collection. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over 100 journals." |
| 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, 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, but has been kept up to date. 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. About 107,000 of the ERIC Documents from 1993-present are available full-text online. There is another online version at the Department of Education website, at: http://www.eric.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 more than 520 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. 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 | SocINDEX with Full Text "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." |
| 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 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 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 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost |
| EBSCOhost | MAS Ultra School Edition Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. |
| ABI-Inform | ABI-Inform
This is a large business database, and indexes over 3000 journals, magazines and newspapers. |
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index | Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
This is a database containing journals from criminal justice. |
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,
Introduction to Internet Resources
There are millions of Internet sites now. Each site has an address on the Internet. That address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). After each Internet history site mentioned in this list, there will be the URL, location, or address of the site on the Internet. When you want to access a site on this list, type in the address which appears after the letters URL. You must type in the address exactly as it appears. If you do not, you will not access the site. DO NOT TYPE IN URL.
Internet Search Tools
There are far too many sites out there on the Internet to be able to find what you want effectively and quickly without some search tool. There are two main types of search tools available: search, engines and, directories. A search engine is a database of Internet sites. There are many different search engines out on the Internet now, and more seem to be popping up all the time. There are a lot of things that most search engines can do:
1. Allow you to search using boolean strategies
2. Put the sites found from your search in some kind of order, either alphabetically,
or rating the site by its relevance to your search terms.
A list of some of the search engines that are available can be found at: http://www.se.edu/lib/search3.htm
While Westlaw is still the best online legal resource out there, the legal resources on the Internet are getting better and better all the time, and most can be searched for free. Legal sources on the Internet can be found on the Internet at this address: http://www.se.edu/lib/sublaw.htm