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

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

ProQuest Diversity Databases (Alternative/Ethnic/Gender news sources): http://tinyurl.com/ythtl6

Beyond ProQuest—Alternative Newspapers, News Websites: http://tinyurl.com/lsdrj

Ethnic/Gender Newspapers, News Websites: http://tinyurl.com/mvect

Mass Media Issues Handout: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng1A/derby.htm

Evaluating Web Sites: http://tinyurl.com/epp93 Web Evaluation Checklist: http://tinyurl.com/l6a52

Subject Headings

For Class Conflict, Use Social Conflict

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 Class Conflict will usually be indexed under “Social Conflict." Likewise, when you’re searching about classes in terms of wealth, the term is “Social Classes.” To browse such headings, they are in the five thick red volumes on the left side of the reference desk. Here are some examples ([ ] means fill in a group of persons such as children or child or wife or husband, etc. such as “Abused Children”)

Violence
Violence against [ ]
Children and violence
Family violence
Prison violence
School violence
Victims of violent crimes
Violent crimes
Violent deaths
Youth and violence
Abused [ ]
Battered [ ]
[ ] Abuse

Social classes
Social conflict
Social status
Classism
Social stratification
Interpersonal conflict
Poor
Poverty
Low-income consumers
Rich people
Working class
Working poor

Race
Race awareness
Race Identity
Race relations
Race Discrimination
Racism
Hate Crimes
Discrimination
Ethnic Groups
Ethnic Relations
Ethnic Attitudes
Ethnicity
Ethnic Conflict

Minorities
African Americans
Arab Americans
Asian Americans
Hispanic Americans
Indians of North America
Mexican Americans
Whites

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.

ProQuest Diversity Databases http://tinyurl.com/ythtl6
Search Alt-PressWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, and GenderWatch to get articles from a good wide range of the alternative presses.

EbscoHost Academic Search Elite http://tinyurl.com/34jgeg
Find magazine and journal articles in the areas of the social sciences and multi-cultural studies. Limit your search to “peer reviewed” if you want to find well-researched studies of your topic.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe http://tinyurl.com/5opp9
Get mostly the mainstream news media press, newswires and cable news transcripts of your topic at hand.

Project MUSE http://tinyurl.com/4ovhc
Scholarly journal articles

Library Catalog—Finding Books and Videos: http://tinyurl.com/7887g

Search the 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. For multiple results on pro/con topics, add “opposing viewpoints“ or “current controversies” as another search term.

Searching the Catalog: This is the best approach when your research need relies you to combine search terms. 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.

Reference and Statistical Resources

The Library contains many reference books, which are useful for many purposes such as: providing you with an overview of a particular subject, leads to other good resources on your subject, statistics and facts, and directories to organizations or associations that can provide you with more information.

CQ Researcher	Reference Shelves: H35 .E35 1991
Facts on File Issues & Controversies	http://tinyurl.com/6ft8u
Encyclopedia of Associations	Reference Shelves: HS17 .G334 2006
Encyclopedia of Psychology	Reference Shelves: BF31 .E52 2000
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice	Reference Shelves: HV6017 .E52 2002
Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol	Reference Shelves: HV5804 .E53 1995
Violence in America: An Encyclopedia	Reference Shelves: HN90 .V5 V5474 1999
Statistical Handbook on Violence in America	Reference Shelves: HN90 .V5 S833 1996
Violence Policy Center	http://www.vpc.org/
Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and Whites	Reference Desk: E184 .A1 R316 2005
Encyclopedia of Multicultural America	Reference Shelves: E184.A1 G14 1995
Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World	Reference Shelves: D860 .M56 2002
American Incomes: Demographics of Who Has Money	Reference Shelves: HC110 .I5 2005
Statistical Handbook on Poverty in the Developing World	Reference Shelves: HC59 .72.P6 S73 1999
Capital Punishment	Reference Shelves: KP9227 .C2 F53 2000
Domestic Violence Sourcebook	Reference Shelves: HV6626 .2 .D685 2004
Gun Control	Reference Shelves: KF3941 .H46 2000
Hate Crimes	Reference Shelves: HV6773.52 .S768 2003
Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook	Reference Shelves: HV6773.52 .A47 2005
Hate Crimes and Racism	http://tinyurl.com/hz25a
Terrorism	Reference Shelves: HV6431 .H43 2001

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. For example, a student created an otherwise decent page on the literary author, Toni Morrison, but she linked to a web page that purported to be a research site on Martin Luther King that turned out to be a racist web site from a white supremacy group! Clearly she did not take the time to evaluate the web sites she selected, carefully.

The Library has an effective web evaluation checklist available at: http://www.chabotcollege.edu!Library/abbylevaluation.html

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

Resources By Subject http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/subjectindex/	American Memory from the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Librarians’ Index to the Internet http://lii.org	INFOMINE http://infomine.ucr.edu/
SocioWeb http://www.socioweb.com/	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://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng1A/Transue.html#search

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

Pamphlet Files

At the Library, we have several filing cabinets of articles and documents to many topics. Use the Card catalog that rests on TOP of the filing cabinet, and search by Library of Congress Subject Headings. Then find the folder that has the articles/documents related to your topic. You can check out up to five articles/pamphlets at the Check Out Desk.