|
name__________________________
Before we get
started -- Earth
at Night || Prudhoe
Bay || Map
of Egypt
| Find Books
in the Library |
- Go to
the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click
on Library Catalog
- Type a topic into the search box
 Look
up a topic of interest to you.
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What did you find? Title of book__________________________________________
When was it published? ____________________
What is its call number? _______________________________
Should it be available on the shelves? ____________________________
To
get access only to electronic books -- The library offers over 18,000 electronic books!!
- Go
to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click
on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on
left)
- Under
General (top left), click on NetLibrary
e-Books (if
you are off campus, type in your library card number)
Search
the electronic books using a topic of interest to you. Once you have the book on the screen, click to View this Book. Pretty amazing! What did you find?
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| Find
Articles in Magazines |
Academic Search Premier provides access to information
about articles published in approximately 8,000 periodicals.
For just over half of those, full text copies of the articles
are in the database.
- Go to
the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click
on Full Text Articles
- Under
General (on the left), select Academic
Search Premier (if
you are off campus, type in your library card number)
- On the
next screen, click to go to the Advanced search interface.
With this advanced search screen, you can most efficiently search
more than one term at a time.
- Click
on the little box next to the word Full Text to limit
your search to full text articles on the database.
- Type in
your search terms and hit the SEARCH button. For example, here's a search for full text articles about Monterey Bay otters
From
the results list, click on the article
title to get to the screen with more information about it.
Use Academic Search Premier to identify a periodical
article on a topic of interest to you.
Article
title_________________________________________________________________
Periodical
title (look where the screen says Source)
______________________________________________
Date
of periodical__________________
Proquest Newspapers is a database that includes articles
from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and The Christian
Science Monitor
- Go to
the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click
on Full Text Articles
- Over on right, under News, click on Proquest
Newspapers
Find
an article on a topic of interest to you.
Title of article ____________________________________________
Newspaper
______________________________________________
Date of
article _________________________
Notice that you can email the article, and even click to get a citation for it.
Google is digitizing books. Millions of them. Here's how it's being done. Here's another video about the process.
Go to books.google.com. Here's a search for books about teamwork. This search retrieves books published after 2006 that you can read all the way through.
Go to GoogleBooks. Look for books on a topic of interest to you. Limit to full view so you can read the books. What did you find?
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| How
to Get to This Page
on the Internet |
- Go
to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
- Click
on Internet Links
- Click
on Counseling, and, under Course-Related Materials,
select CG 51, Introduction to College, V. Leon.
V. Leon and T. N. Smalley, 2/09. |
