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Resources Available at the Library: English 102 (Dragoo)

Library Home page: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/library/

Search Strategy Handout: http://tinyurl.com/6zja3

Subject Headings

Sometimes instead of searching by keywords, you may have better luck finding materials by consulting the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).  This is important because you can sometimes get better search results.  For example, articles, books, and web sites on Civil Liberties will usually be indexed under “Civil Rights."  To browse such headings, they are in the five thick red volumes on the reference shelves, on the left side of the reference desk.

Ghost Dance Wounded Knee Massacre South Dakota
Indians of North America Peyotism Bureau of Indian Affairs

Keywords: American Indian Movement, Leonard Peltier, Anna Mae Aquash, Native American Church, Black Hills

Library Catalog—Finding Books and Videos: http://tinyurl.com/8mo5z

Search the library catalog for books related to a topic of your interest. Select a topic and create a search statement. Find a book and then its call number.

Searching the Catalog:  Make sure words or phrase is selected underneath Search For and narrow your search down to Chabot College if you only want to find books available at Chabot. Combine different terms such as: united states AND iraq or cloning AND religion.   . enter your terms with AND in between and then click on  . See Your Search Strategy for more information on phrasing a search statement.

Library Subscription Databases: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/dblist.html.  —To find articles related to your topic that originally appeared in magazines, journals, and newspapers.  Originally published in print form.

Mainly Magazines and Journals	Mainly Newspapers
EbscoHost Academic Search Elite A multi-subject database, covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more!   Tutorial available at: http://tinyurl.com/58ysq	ProQuest Diversity Databases Alt-PressWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, and GenderWatch. Select all three to search.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Search “Quick News Search” for articles from the last two years.  For older articles, search in “General News Search.”	Issues & Controversies Get pro/con overviews on controversial topics, often related to current events. Especially good for argumentative speeches.

Reference (Books and Web sites)

CQ Researcher	Reference: H35 .E35 1991 Index at reference desk.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America	Reference: E184.A1 G14 1995
Violence in America: An Encyclopedia	Reference: HN90.V5 V5474 1999
Reference Library of Native North America	Reference: E77.N37 1994
The Native North American Almanac	Reference: E77 .N37 1994
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes	Reference: E76.2 .W35 1988
The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions	Reference: BR563 .I5 E53 1992
Atlas of American Indian Affairs	Reference: G1201.E1 P7 1990
The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography	Reference: E89 .J69 1997
Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary	Reference: E98 .W8 B38 2001
North American Indian Chiefs	Reference: E89 .N6 1995
Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations	Reference: E93 .T55 1996
Handbook of the American Frontier: Four Centuries of Indian-White Relationships	Reference: E76.2 .H43
Native American Resources at Chabot Library	http://tinyurl.com/cd96d
American Indian and Indigenious Politics	http://facstaff.uww.edu/mohanp/nasa.html
Internet Resources on Native Americans	http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Edee/NAINRES.HTM
Resources By Subject	http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/subjectindex/

Web Resources

Use Web search engines (such as Google) last for your research, and if you do, be prepared to evaluate web sites with a very skeptical eye. Anybody can put anything on the web, and if you do not pay attention, you could be linking very questionable or misinformed sites.   The Library has an effective web evaluation checklist available at: http://www.chabotcollege.edu!Library/abby/evaluation.html

World Wide Web: Academic Searching
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/metasites.pdf

Librarians’ Index to the Internet http://lii.org	INFOMINE http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Online Subject Index http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/dbsbysubject.html	Scout Report Archives http://scout.wisc.edu/Archives/
Academic Info http://www.academicinfo.us/	Virtual Learning Resources Center http://www.virtuallrc.com/

World Wide Web: General Searching
http://tinyurl.com/4ekxp

SearchGov http://www.searchgov.com/	SearchEDU http://www.searchedu.com
Google (limiting to .org) http://tinyurl.com/6yrp9	About http://www.about.com/
Google (limiting to PDF format) http://tinyurl.com/5f294

Searching EbscoHost

First, before searching any database, come up with a search strategy. 

For this class assignment, select Academic Search Elite.  From the Library home page, go to Magazine, Journal Articles, Newspapers.   The selection for Academic Search Elite is listed under All Subjects.  Click on Go Directly Into The Database.  Or . . .
If you have a computer with low memory or you have a disability, click on Academic Search Elite, and then click on the link to the right of the Text Only icon.  Then, click on Academic Search Elite to get into the database.

Ebsco Host Search Form

You can also search by ONE TERM at a time by clicking on . If you get results you do not want, click on and perform a different search.  To view your past searches, click on  .

By default, results in EbscoHost are listed by date, most recent first.  By clicking on the pull down menu on the top right of your results, you can change how you want your results, sorted.  Changing your results by relevance may help you in some cases.

Reading the Results List Screen 

Reading the Top of an Article

When you click on the full record of a result, which should be clicking on the title (NOT the full text icon) you will read information about the article.  If you find a really good article and want to find more like it, clicking on links next to Subject(s), Source, or Author(s) may help.

Title:	Bilingual education.
Subject(s) :	EDUCATION, Bilingual
Source :	Phi Delta Kappan , May98, Vol. 79 Issue 9, p672, 6p, 1bw
Author(s) :	Rothstein, Richard
Abstract :	Focuses on the controversy surrounding bilingual education. The arguments of proponents and opponents of bilingual education; The history of bilingual education; The mixed findings on bilingual education.

EMAILING/PRINTING ARTICLES

EMAILING An Article 1.       Make sure you have the article itself on the screen.  Otherwise, you may be emailing yourself a list of citations. 2.       Click on the Email button:  .  It is available on the top of the screen of each database.  On the right are Email buttons as they appear in our many databases 3.       You may be asked to make certain selections.  If you want full text make sure it is selected and then click on "Submit" or "OK" 4.       Enter Email address and then select "Submit" or "OK"

Printing An Article 1.      Make sure you have the article itself on the screen 2.      Click on the Print button on the EbscoHost screen:  3.      Make sure Detailed Citation and Abstract and HTML text is available. 4.      From your browser, select Print Preview to Preview your print jobs.  When done, select print. 5.      If what you have is a PDF file, you need to click on the Print icon from the Adobe Acrobat toolbar itself, , otherwise you will end up printing a blank page. 6.      If you’re on campus, you will need to then go to a Go Print station to then use your Go Print card to pay for your print job (ten cents per page).  For information on how to Print on campus using the Go Print card, go to http://www.chabotcollege.edu/library/handouts/printing.html