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The library may have some whole books, or parts of books, on your chosen culture. To get an idea about what is available, do a keyword search for the culture on which you are focusing, e.g., surfers. Or, try subculture for books on a variety of subcultures.
Electronic books The library has about 18,000 electronic books. You can search inside the books for the occurence of words, so you can get quite specific. To get to them
If
you are coming in from off campus, you'll type in your library
card number to gain access.
Google Books -- Google is digitizing books. They have just passed the 12 million mark!!! The important point is that, like with the NetLibrary e-Books, you can search inside these books. Google is digitizing some periodicals as well. Here's a sample search:
Here's the result of that search:
Your turn! Search for your topic using Google Books.
Here's a sample search
Click to limit your search to full text documents. You can also click to limit the search to academic journals.
If you forget to limit to full text and you fall in love with an article title, the library may be able to get a copy of it for you. It's call an interlibrary loan. Stop by the Reference Desk in the library with information about the article(s) you need. Sometimes it takes as long as two weeks -- so it's good to plan ahead. Here's a sample search:
Click on the article title to get to the full text and full information about the article. Note where you can click to print, email, even cite the article!!
Your turn! Search for your topic using Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier will be your primary database for high quality articles on your culture. Google Scholar, though, is also becoming an important resource. When Google finds something on the Web and thinks it is a periodical article (it uses a computer algorithm to look for tell-tale signs such as volume, issue, and page numbers, etc.), then it throws it into Scholar. Some, but not all, of these articles will be available to you full text. Here's a sample search:
Scholar is at scholar.google.com or go to google.com and click on More. Your turn! Search for your topic using Scholar
The quality and usefulness of Web resources varies a good deal. Some useful criteria to use for evaluative purposes are:
Evaluating
Internet Resources For example, here's a search for resources on the ethnography of gangs using Google's Web search. Click on Show options
Do a Google Web search for your topic.
There are many sources of videos on the Web these days. You probably use YouTube. But, largest resource with quality commercial videos (not home made) is Go to Blinkx and look for videos on your culture. Did you find something?
The Web is rich in images. You'll want to know how to copy an image from the Web and insert it into a Word document. Go to Google Images. Search for and select an image.
Your image is there. Word is not PhotoShop (an expensive software program for altering images) -- you can't really "doctor up" your image, but you can do some manipulations. You can write next to and below the image. To put text around the image -- click on the image, go to Format -> Picture. Click on Layout tab, and select the wrapping format you want. You can also, you'll note, change the size and do some other minor alterations.
Now that you have found all this wonderful stuff, how do you cite it? To get to style guides: from the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links, then click on Style Guides. Remember that in periodical and other databases, there will probably be a way to get an already formatted citation with one click, which you can then copy and paste. For books, use Worldcat.org. Once you get a record for a book, then click on Cite/Export.
D. McKenzie, T. N. Smalley 9/09
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