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Psychology/Counseling 4: Multi-Ethnic/Cultural Communications (Wilson)

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.

 

African Americans Asian Americans Hawaiians Polynesians Pacific Islanders Hispanic Americans Mexican Americans

African American Students Asian American Students Hawaiian Students Mexican American Students Intercultural Communication Communication

Ethnicity Ethnic Groups Group Identity Culture Acculturation Subculture Cultural Values

 

 

 

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. For this assignment, Academic Search Elite and ProQuest Diversity Databases would be the best places to find articles.

 

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.  Alt-PressWatch and GenderWatch.  Also have some magazines and journals.
Project MUSE Scholarly journal articles in the Humanities and Social Sciences.	Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Search “Quick News Search” for articles from the last two years.  For older articles, search in “General News Search.”

 

 

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

How to Search the Library Catalog: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/librarycatalog.html

 

Library of Congress Classification Handout: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/lc.html

 

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.

 

Reference/Statistical Sources (Books, Databases and Web sites—This is just a sample)

Encyclopedia of Psychology	Reference:  BF31 .E52 2000
Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling	Reference:  BF31 .B25 1999
CQ Researcher	Index at Ref. Desk.  Reference: H35 E35
Facts on File Issues & Controversies	Click on link from online handout or Articles page
Statistical Abstract of the United States	Reference Desk: HA202 U58 S7 2002
Encyclopedia of Associations	Reference Desk: HS17 .G334 2004
International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family	Reference: HQ9 .E52 2003
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America	Reference: E184.A1 G14 1995
Countries and their Cultures	Reference:  GN307 .C68 2001
International Encyclopedia of Sexuality	Reference:  HQ21 .I68
Reference Books on Ethnic Groups in the U.S. (Mostly under Call Numbers that Begin with E84)	E84—Find titles such as Reference Library of Asian America, Hispanic American Almanac, etc.
The Asian American Almanac	Reference:  E184 O6 A824 1995
Reference Library of Asian America	Reference:  E184 O6 R45 1995
Notable Asian Americans	Reference:  E184 06 N67 1995
Contemporary Black Biography	Reference:  E185.96 C66
Reference Library of Black America	Reference:  E185 R44 1997
The African American Almanac	Reference:  E185 A37 1994

 

 

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/abby/evaluation.html

 

African American World  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/

 

American Aloha  http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/americanaloha/

 

Asian Nation: The Landscape of Asian America  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/

 

Electronic Resources on Diversity  http://tinyurl.com/5qbcn

 

Hawaii Digital Archive Collections  http://libweb.hawaii.edu/

 

Hawaiian Journal of History  http://tinyurl.com/6v7lc

 

Living Voices (Profiles on Native Americans and Hawaiians)  http://tinyurl.com/5lm5o

 

Pacific Islander’s Resource Directory (Northern California)  http://tinyurl.com/6ye2m

 

Psychology and Student Counseling Web Resources      http://tinyurl.com/3lpee

Created by the Library, this site leads you to search engines and research guides devoted to the fields of Psychology and Student Counseling.

 

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://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/

 

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, Newspaper Articles and More.   The selection for Academic Search Elite is listed under Multi-Subject.  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 

ProQuest Diversity Databases

 

From the Library Home Page, go to Magazines, Journals, and Newspaper Articles and click on “Search All Three at Once.”  In addition to entering your search terms, there is also a selection for Ethnic Groups, you can choose to select.

 

 

 

 

Enter your search statement here (combine two terms):  __________________________________________________

 

 

Select an article from Ebsco Host or ProQuest and enter relevant information:

Author:	Title:
Title of Journal, Magazine, or Newspaper:	Volume, year, and page numbers:

 

 

 

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: