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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:

R 070.442 Ed4c CQ Researcher
Published by Congressional Quarterly, the staff does research a topic of current interest, such as AIDS, gun control, abortion, lotteries, Acid rain, toxic waste, hate crimes, sexual harassment etc. Great place to start doing research on a topic. Each weekly report contains an extensive bibliography at the end of the report. This is also available online at: http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/

R 303.603 D54e Encyclopedia of Violence
Contains articles on all aspects of violence, such as: riots, police brutality, death penalty, hate groups, hate crimes, gun control, sports violence, vandalism, sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, gangs, and outlaw motorcycle gangs

R 348.7303 W52W West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Designed to meet the layperson's needs for basic legal information. Contains nearly 5000 articles on legal principles and concepts, biographies of important people in legal matters, accounts of famous trials, important documents and laws.

R 344.7301133 F31o4 Federal Laws Prohibiting Employment Discrimination
This books discusses the main laws designed to prohibit employment discrimination and court cases that deal with employment discrimination.

R 348.730134 G28m Gender and American Law
This is a series of books on women and the Law. The books in the series include: (1) Women and the American Legal Order, (2) Reproduction, Sexuality and the Family (3) The Employment Context, (4) Educational Equity, (5) The Legal Response to Violence Against Women, (6) Pornography, Sex Work, and Hate Speech, (6) Feminist Legal Theories .

R 342.73 En5l Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
Contains articles on doctrinal concepts of constitutional law, (such as federalism, cruel and unusual punishment, religious liberty, and freedom of speech) It also has articles on other topics that have an effect on the constitution, such as: age discrimination, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, race- consciousness, gender rights, feminist theory, and extremist speech. It also has articles on people associated with the development and interpretation of the constitution, articles on all amendments to the constitution, famous and/or important 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.

R 305.8924 C36A AntiSemitism
This book is a part of the Contemporary World Issues series of books. Excellent for gaining the grasp of a antisemitism. It contains an overview section, which has a discussion of the main questions being asked or arguments raised about the antisemitism, then a chronology section, a biographical sketches section of the main figures in the antisemitism, facts and statistics section, documents and reports, laws and legislation pertaining to the antisemitism, and a directory of agencies and organizations associated with the antisemitism.

R 305.8 C26d3 Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations
Provides coverage of race and ethic relations topics, such as: police and racism, racial discrimination, media and racism, racist, racial harassment, and institutional racism. Also provides articles on Latinos, holocaust, diaspora, ethnicity, and equal opportunity and affirmative action.

R 342.73 M25f Freedom of Speech, Press, and Assembly
This book is a part of the Exploring the Constitution Series. It contains chapters on: what is speech?, where can people speak?, Political speech: the clear and present danger test, Entertainment speech: the problem of obscenity, and more.

LOISLAW

Loislaw is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, and affordable online legal research service. It contains case law from all Federal courts and all state courts. It also contains all Federal Statutes, and state statutes. It contains Administrative rules and regulations from both Federal and state.

MAGAZINES,JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS

A magazine or journal is something that is published periodically, and so in libraries they are called periodicals. A magazine is a periodical that can be published daily, weekly, or monthly. Magazines usually contain fairly short articles written in a style of writing that is easy to understand. There are usually lots or advertising in a magazine. A journal, however, contains the results of research or experiments done. Usually in a journal article there is data presented about a research project, and the language can be quite technical, and there are few advertisements.

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.

HOW TO FIND ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, MAGAZINES

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 An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the humanities. Coverage begins in 1974 and continues until 1993.
Basement	Social Sciences Index An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the social sciences. Coverage begins in 1974 and continues until 1998.
Basement	Art Index An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the arts. Coverage begins in 1967 and continues until 2002.
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?

It is much easier to use online databases, and you can search years of a database with one search
You can also find the most recent articles on any topic because most online databases are updated daily or weekly

There is a disadvantage to online databases for those who are researching topics in history or literature

Most online databases go back only to the 1990's or the 1980's, and so many potentially valuable articles in older magazines and journals can be missed if you search only in online databases.

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.
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.

What the Periodical Databases part of the Electronic Resources Page looks like on the SE Library's Webpage. You can see the links to EBSCOhost and FirstSearch

Step Two: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text

(the steps from here on pertain only to online databases)

Databases have changed much in the last ten years. it used to be that databases contained only the citation (information needed to find the article) and sometimes a summary, or abstract of the article. Starting about ten years ago, database vendors began to offer some articles in full-text, that means that the entire article was available online, making it unnecessary to find the article in a library. Now there are fewer databases that offer no titles in full-text, and so after doing research in one of SE's databases, check to see if the article that you are interested is available full-text. There will be a link that say something like this: HTML full text, or PDF full text. When you click on the link, you are presented with the full-text of the article, and you are finished. What if the full-text of the article is not available in the database that you are searching? If that is the case, then we move onto Step Three

Step Three: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text in another database

If you can't find an article full-text in one database, then look to see what other databases have a journal title available full-text. You do that by checking another database called A-to-Z A-to-Z is located at: http://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?id=seosu, or you can also get to A-to-Z from the electronic resources page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm. A-to-Z is a list of journals that are available full-text, either in an online database that we subscribe to or available in the library in paper in the basement on in microform.

Step Four: Check to see if the the SE Library has the journal in paper

The library subscribes to almost one thousand journals, magazines, and newspapers. In many cases the journal article that you want is located in a journal that we have downstairs in the basement, or on microform. How do you check to see if the library has a journal? By checking A-to-Z, or checking a copy of the SE Library's Periodicals Holding List http://www.se.edu/lib/perhold.htm

Step Five: Use InterLibrary Loan to obtain the article from another college library that has the journal that you want

If you have determined that you cannot locate a journal article full-text on any online database, AND the SE library does not have the journal that the article is in, then what do you do? Give up? You can, but if the article is an important one for your research, you would still like to get it, right? There is one last way for you to get a copy of this article. You can obtain a copy of an article from almost any journal by using a service called Interlibrary Loan. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service that the SE Library provides to students where you can ask (through us) another library that has the journal title that you want . The process of doing this is simple.

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,

RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

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.

CQ Researcher Online
http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/

This database contains reports on topics of current interest

The Digital Book Index
http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm

WorldCat
http://worldcat.org

This is truly what the name implies: a world catalog. This is a "super" catalog of about 10,000 libraries around the world. It contains records on items that are up to three thousand years old. Contains records of books, journals, videocassettes, CD-ROMS, manuscripts, maps, pictures and more. Use this catalog when you are not finding anything in the SE catalog.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/

The Online Books Page
http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

The Online Books Page is a project founded by John Mark Ockerbloom of the University of Pennsylvania. This projects provides links to full text content that is available free online. There are over 20,000 books here. There are also archives of full text content from many periodicals, including many that were published in the nineteenth century.

Gale Literary Resource Center
http://access.gale.com/ok2006/

This is a temporary resource that we have available until September 30. It contains full text of many of Gale's most important reference works, including the Contemporary Literary Criticism Series mentioned above. A good resource to check out.

Electronic Resources
http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm

This page contains links to electronic databases that the SE Library subscribes to or free databases that were put on this page.

Internet Resources by Subject
http://www.se.edu/lib/

This is a page that has been put together by librarians that contain a list of links to resources on the Internet by topic.

Government Documents
http://www.se.edu/lib/govdocs/govdoc%20home.html

This is a page of links to government documents, which are documents and databases published by the United States government on many different topics. There are many useful reports and statistics published by the government on the Internet.

FirstGov
http://www.firstgov.gov/

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

NetLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/

Last Updated: June 23, 2008

R 070.442 Ed4c	CQ Researcher Published by Congressional Quarterly, the staff does research a topic of current interest, such as AIDS, gun control, abortion, lotteries, Acid rain, toxic waste, hate crimes, sexual harassment etc. Great place to start doing research on a topic. Each weekly report contains an extensive bibliography at the end of the report. This is also available online at: http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
R 303.603 D54e	Encyclopedia of Violence Contains articles on all aspects of violence, such as: riots, police brutality, death penalty, hate groups, hate crimes, gun control, sports violence, vandalism, sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, gangs, and outlaw motorcycle gangs
R 348.7303 W52W	West's Encyclopedia of American Law Designed to meet the layperson's needs for basic legal information. Contains nearly 5000 articles on legal principles and concepts, biographies of important people in legal matters, accounts of famous trials, important documents and laws.
R 344.7301133 F31o4	Federal Laws Prohibiting Employment Discrimination This books discusses the main laws designed to prohibit employment discrimination and court cases that deal with employment discrimination.
R 348.730134 G28m	Gender and American Law This is a series of books on women and the Law. The books in the series include: (1) Women and the American Legal Order, (2) Reproduction, Sexuality and the Family (3) The Employment Context, (4) Educational Equity, (5) The Legal Response to Violence Against Women, (6) Pornography, Sex Work, and Hate Speech, (6) Feminist Legal Theories .
R 342.73 En5l	Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Contains articles on doctrinal concepts of constitutional law, (such as federalism, cruel and unusual punishment, religious liberty, and freedom of speech) It also has articles on other topics that have an effect on the constitution, such as: age discrimination, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, race- consciousness, gender rights, feminist theory, and extremist speech. It also has articles on people associated with the development and interpretation of the constitution, articles on all amendments to the constitution, famous and/or important 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.
R 305.8924 C36A	AntiSemitism This book is a part of the Contemporary World Issues series of books. Excellent for gaining the grasp of a antisemitism. It contains an overview section, which has a discussion of the main questions being asked or arguments raised about the antisemitism, then a chronology section, a biographical sketches section of the main figures in the antisemitism, facts and statistics section, documents and reports, laws and legislation pertaining to the antisemitism, and a directory of agencies and organizations associated with the antisemitism.
R 305.8 C26d3	Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations Provides coverage of race and ethic relations topics, such as: police and racism, racial discrimination, media and racism, racist, racial harassment, and institutional racism. Also provides articles on Latinos, holocaust, diaspora, ethnicity, and equal opportunity and affirmative action.
R 342.73 M25f	Freedom of Speech, Press, and Assembly This book is a part of the Exploring the Constitution Series. It contains chapters on: what is speech?, where can people speak?, Political speech: the clear and present danger test, Entertainment speech: the problem of obscenity, and more.