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Resources Available at the Library-- Vietnam War Resources
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng102/Dragoo.html

To begin, go to the Library’s web site: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/LIbrary

Subject Headings   |  Library Catalog  | Ebsco Host  |  Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Other Databases  |   Reference Resources (Print)   |  World Wide Web
  Sites That Select Quality Sites  |  Search Engines   |  Your Search Strategy
Email/Printing/Finding Articles   |  Works Cited

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 the "vietnam war" will usually be indexed under "Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975."  To browse such headings, they are in the four thick red volumes on the left side of the reference desk.  Also, in searching in any database, sometimes "Vietnam" is indexed as one word and other times the country's indexed as two words: "Viet Nam"  Here are some other headings that may be useful to you.
 

Nineteen Sixties United States Social Conditions 1960-1980 United States Social Life and Customs 1945-1970 United States History 1945-	Vietnam Cambodia Laos My Lai
Chicago (Ill.) Riot, August, 1968. Kent State University Washington (D.C.) -- Demonstration	Agent Orange Dioxins Veterans Diseases
Calley, William Ellsberg, Daniel Morrison, Norman McCarthy, Eugene  (Notice: Last name, then first name)	Pentagon Papers Freedom of the Press United States Foreign Relations Vietnam Vietnam Foreign Relations United States

THE LIBRARY CATALOG

Search the library catalog for books related to your topic. Select a topic and create a search statement. Find a book and then its call number. Remember: Books will have in-depth material but will be dated.
 

Go into the Library Catalog and search by Subject Heading by entering your term and then clicking on .  Scroll down and click to other pages (if available) to view all the headings related to your main subject heading (see example of such list to the right).  Click on the links to headings that best meet your interest.
If instead of searching by Subject, you want to combine different terms such as: civil rights AND Afro Americans or Smoking AND Cancer, enter your terms with AND in between and then click on . See Your Search Strategy for more information

Enter your search statement here:  __________________________________________________
Below is an example of a search result (example is from another course).
 

List a Book You Have Found Here Look at the FULL record and make sure to enter all fields below.
                                                                             Also, Make sure the title is from Chabot:

**Title:	**Author:
Place of Publication, Publisher & Year:	Call Number:

EBSCO HOST PERIODICAL DATABASES	Ebsco Host Trials: http://trial.epnet.com/ Current Ebsco Host: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp
At the first window, click on	For login and password, contact the Reference Desk.

Search the Ebsco Host databases such as the Academic Search Elite trial or the current subscription to MasterFILE Premier.
 

You will need to perform more specific searches here as there will be more material available.  Remember to use the connector,
AND, in between your terms.  For more information, look at Your Search Strategy.  The example below uses "Sex Role AND Work Environment," but the same rules apply if you enter "vietnamese conflict" and "protest movement."

Enter your search statement here:  __________________________________________________

If you get results you do not want, click on  and perform a different search.

You can also search by ONE TERM at a time by clicking on You can double check your spelling of any words by clicking on

Reading the Results List Screen

Reading the Top of an Article

Results to evaluated web sites can be found by clicking on  on the top right of the Result List screen.   When you click on the full record of a result, the top fields will appear as in the right.  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:  Anatomy of a cover-up. Subject(s):  AGENT Orange -- Physiological effect Source:  Nation, 11/30/92, Vol. 255 Issue 18, p658, 6p, 1 illustration Author(s):  Casten, Liane Clorfene Abstract:  Focuses on the cover-up on the danger of Agent Orange. The effort to downplay the deadly nature of dioxin; The studies that were done; The fears at the Dow Chemical company as early as 1937; The companies involved included Dow and Monsanto; How people in charge played with the numbers to lessen any possible link of ailing veterans to Agent Orange; The Agent Orange Working Group and the power they needed; How the Agent Orange Act was just a ploy; Details.

Select an article from Ebsco Host and enter relevant information:
 

Author:	Title:
Title of Journal:	Volume, year, and page numbers:

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe will lead you to mostly newspaper articles on your subject, some articles going back as far as 1977 (for newspaper articles during the Vietnam War itself, ask to look at our newspaper indexes and then view the article from our Microfilm, upstairs).  Make sure to select News, select a category, then after a search form appears, enter your search and select a Source from the pulldown menu.  This database is only available on campus. 
 

General News Go to News and then select "General News"	Enter your search terms, and from the Source pull down menu, Major Newspapers, and then click on
California News  (or other State News) Go to News and then select "U.S. News"	Enter your search terms, and from the State pull down menu, select California (or other state), and then click on
Transcripts Go to News and then select "Transcripts"	For transcripts of televised news sources, enter your search terms and from the Source pull down menu, select your desired news source, from the Dates pull down menu select a desired date range, then click on
Policy Papers Devoted to Controversial Topics Go to News and then select "General News"	Enter your search terms, and from the Source pull down menu select Policy Papers, then from the Dates pull down menu select All Available Dates, then click on

OTHER DATABASES
Go to Magazines, Journals, and Newspaper Articles and More  and select a database such as:
 

	Encyclopedia Britannica Online will give you a general overview of your topic.  Use broad subject terms for results.  This database is only available on campus.
	Ethnic NewsWatch Complete gives you newspaper articles from the ethnic, minority, and native presses of the United States from 1990 to the present

OFF CAMPUS/Full Text ACCESS: Logins and passwords are available on the small yellow sheet, copies of which are available at the reference desk.  Most of the articles have full text in our database products, but most often, pictures, graphics, and tables are omitted.

Enter your search statement here:  __________________________________________________

Select an online article from Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, FACTS.com, or another database, and enter relevant information:

Author:	Title:
Title of Source:	Volume, Year, and Page Numbers:

The Library contains many reference books, which are useful for many purposes such as: providing you with an introduction to various subjects, statistics and factual information, addresses (including web addresses) to look up, and even introductory books devoted to particular subjects (such as subject encyclopedias).  Here are a few examples:
 

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War	Reference Shelves: DS557.7 E53 2000
Historical Dictionary of Vietnam	Reference Shelves: DS556.25 D85 1998
Encyclopedia of Asian History	Reference Shelves: DS31 E53 1988
American Decades	Reference Shelves: E169.12 A422
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture	Reference Shelves: E169.1 S764 2000
Violence in America	Reference Shelves: HN90 V5 V5474
Political Profiles For biographical info. on figures in American politics in the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford administrations	Reference Shelves: E840.6 P64
Editorial Research Reports and CQ Researcher Search the index of the end of each decade's volume (1970, 1980, 1990) for articles related to Viet Nam or to your particular Viet Nam topic such as Agent Orange	Reference Shelves: H35 E35
Yearbook of the United Nations For each year, look in table of contents under "Questions relating to Asia and the Far East"	Reference Shelves: JX 1977 A37 Y4
Encyclopedia Britannica  For indepth history of Viet Nam, V. 27, p. 779-791	Reference Shelves: AE 5 E5
Online Reference Shelf	http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/
Librarians' Index to the Internet	http://lii.org

Face it. The World Wide Web can contain good resources for library research, but trying to find them is a chore! There is just too much junk and misinformation or web pages that have information without having their facts verified. Take caution and evaluate each web site you come across carefully. To get a good idea why this is important, take a look at: http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/class/629/dhmo.html Take some time to really think what DHMO is.  Then, take a look at this web site:  http://www.snopes2.com/toxins/dhmo.htm

Sites that Select and Evaluate Quality Web Sites:

Encyclopedia Britannica http://search.eb.com/
(Select "Britannica’s Internet Guide" from the options below)

Vietnam: Conflict or War? http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Vietnam.html

Vietnam War Internet Project  http://www.vwip.org/vwiphome.html

About.Com's Viet Nam War Links  http://history1900s.about.com/homework/history1900s/msub13.htm

Vietnam: Yesterday and Today  http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/

CIA The World Factbook 2000: Vietnam  http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/vm.html

Viet Nam War Documents http://web.archive.org/web/20010815054903/http://students.vassar.edu/~vietnam/abstracts.html

Investigating the Viet Nam War  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietnam.html

The History Place: Vietnam War  http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/

VietNam: A Cross-National, Interdisciplinary Perspective  http://www1.esc.edu/personalfac/delliott/vn_files/vn_links.html

Battlefield: Vietnam  http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/

VietNamWar.net  http://www.vietnamwar.net/

Sixties Project Website  http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Scholar.html

323 Links  http://web.mala.bc.ca/davies/H323Vietnam/323links.htm

INFOMINE    http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Scout Report Archives  http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/archives/

Select Search Engines or Directories that will More Likely Lead you to Academic Web Sites Start with the right side of the Web Guides and Search Engines page first, to search directories that select quality sites. You will often have to search using broad subject terms. Use the search engines or directories listed on the left side to find pages devoted to specific topics, but keep in mind that on the left side, there is little or no "quality control" for what you will get.

Web Guides and Search Engines http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/websearch.html

Better Search Engines:

Virtual LRC http://www.virtuallrc.com/    Google www.google.com   SearchEdu www.searchedu.com

EMAILING/FINDING/CITING ARTICLES

EMAILING ARTICLE

If you are at home, or can only print, please click on any "print," "format for printing," or "print-friendly" option from the database, first, then once the screen has been reformatted, select "Print Preview" from the File pull down menu of your browser to make sure you are printing what you are seeing and to select pages to print.   At the Library, Please print as FEW PAGES AS POSSIBLE.

IN GENERAL, IF YOU ARE IN THE LIBRARY, PLEASE EMAIL YOUR ARTICLES INSTEAD OF PRINTING. Make sure you have the article itself on the screen.  Otherwise, you may be emailing yourself a list of citations. 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 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" Enter Email address and then select "Submit" or "OK"

Ebsco Host Encyclopedia Britannica No Email function is available.  Print article by first clicking on , then selecting Print from your browser Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe SIRS Knowledge Source Literature Resource Center Issues & Controversies No Email function is available.  Click Print Preview from the File menu of your browser to see what pages you want to print, and then click OK

FINDING AN ARTICLE IN OUR COLLECTION

PAPER COPIES:  Go to the Periodicals Desk which is next to the elevator. If on Ebsco Host, check Notes to see if we have the Year in paper or Microfilm, first

MICROFILM COPIES: If Ebsco Host notes Chabot has it on Microfilm, go to the green cabinets on the Mezzanine.  Microfilm readers are available on the wall.  For assistance in finding microfilm or using the readers, go to the Audio Visual Center desk on the Mezzanine.

If we do not have the title, do not despair.  Does Ebsco Host list another library having it?  Also, check to see if the Library at California State University, Hayward has the title by going to: http://aphid.csuchico.edu/lso/hayward/search.asp

Take a look at the MLA Citation Handout.  Take note that when citing an article from a Library Subscription Database such as the ones listed above, you need to follow special instructions.

MLA Citation Handout  http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/cited.html

Article From a Library Subscription Database  http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/cited.html#database

This handout is also available at the following address: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng102/Dragoo.htm