Cabrillo College Library 

Find Books

Find Full Text Articles

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Find Newspaper Articles

Search across Databases

Biographical Information

Look for Web sites

Style Manuals

Videos

Transfer Images

How to Get to This Page on the Internet 

 

 


 

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This Web page for this class has been made a Favorite on computers in the classroom. Otherwise, here is how
to get to it:

1. Go to the Cabrillo Library homepage at http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
2. Click on Internet Links -- third icon down on left
3. Click on Education
4. Click on Soquel High School Researchers

RULES OF THE ROAD TODAY
When you find articles and other resources during your session at the library, it's probably easiest to email
them to yourselves. If you want to print, print from the classroom computers -- not from the downstairs
computers. Limit yourself to 10 pages or so total.

You can open a Word document on the computers in the classroom and take notes that way instead
of writing on this handout.

Find information on your topic in a Reference book

Find a Reference book on your topic in the Reference area of the library

The library uses the Library of Congress classification system. Call numbers begin with letters and numbers.

Q is science
QC is physics
QD is chemistry
RA 1 is public health
RA 14 is public health in one of the states
RC 5 is practice of medicine

It is always good to begin with some background information to orient you to your topic. Some of you have selected very
broad topics; a background reference source will help you narrow your focus. Some of you have very narrow topics; a
background reference source will help you get some perspective.

I have already identified a reference resource on your topic-- see handout. Next to your name is your topic, then the title of
a reference resource, with its call number. Find that reference resource in the Reference area of the library. Library floorplan (it is also a handout for you).

Computers on the first floor of library are only for Cabrillo College students with a network account!   Exemption: the 8 "express stations" stand up computers near the Reference/Information Desk. When you need to use a computer to access resources,
use one of those 8 computers, or use a computer in the classroom.

Most of you will use the reference book's index. If there is more than one article on the topic, usually the main article is identified
in the index by bolding the page numbers. Sometimes there are volume and page numbers, and sometimes the work is continuously paginated.

When you are finished using a Reference book, leave it nearby where you found it. Later, a library worker will reshelve
it. Usually, each of you has one reference book to find. Very occasionally, two people are referred to the same book or
the same set of books.

You may want to photocopy an article or two. Check your floorplan where the photocopiers are.

Find Encyclopedia and Dictionary Articles Online

Online Resources -- Do in the classroom or use one of the 8 stand up "express station" computers near the Reference/Information Desk.

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under Encyclopedias/Background Information (center column), click on CREDO Reference

Here's a search for information about the great wall of China . You are given information
about how long the article is, and also shown ways of narrowing your topic.

Use CREDO Reference for your topic. What did you find?

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Find Books

Do your searching of the online catalog in the classroom or use one of the 8 stand up "express station" computers near the Reference/Information Desk. Then go to the book stacks. Find the book(s) you identified in the stacks, and browse through
books shelved nearby. Bring books to a table or back up to the study room so you can read and make notes.

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Library Catalog. Search for your topic. You will get access to information about the lbrary's print books, electronic books, videos, etc.

You will want to spend some time in the stacks looking at books on your topic.

Your notes____________________________________________________

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Online Resources -- Do in the classroom or use one of the 8 stand up "express station" computers near the Reference/Information Desk.
Electronic books The library has about 18,000 electronic books. You can search JUST electronic books -- and find words
used inside all those thousands of books. Amazing!

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage.
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
  3. Click on NetLibrary E-Books.

Your notes____________________________________________________

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Find Full Text Articles 

Online Resources -- Do in the classroom or use one of the 8 stand up "express station" computers near the Reference/Information Desk.
The Library subscribes to a variety of databases. To see the full array, click on Full Text Articles from the Cabrillo College
Library homepage. To use the databases from off campus, you have to have a Cabrillo College Library card.

Periodicals The largest periodicals database is EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier which provides indexing for
about 8000 periodicals, and fulltext for about 5000 of those titles. 

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles.
  2. Under General, click on Academic Search Premier If you are accessing this from off campus, you will be prompted
    to enter your library card number.
  3. Click to go to Advanced Search




    With the Advanced search screen, you can most efficiently search more than one term at a time.

  4. Click on the little box next to the word Full Text to limit your search to fulltext articles on the database.



  5. Type in your search terms and hit .
From the results list, click on the article title to get to the screen with more information.   Note information about an
article you find on your topic.

Article title__________________________________________________
 

Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) 

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Date of periodical issue_______________

Most articles are available full text as PDF files.

EBSCOhost also provides one click access to emailing the article, and even citing it!!

Your turn!! Search for information on your topic. What did you find?
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Find Newspaper Articles

Online Resources -- Do in the classroom or use one of the 8 "express station" stand up computers near the Reference/Information Desk.
Use Proquest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and  Christian Science Monitor) 

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles  
  2. Under News (over on right), click on Proquest Newspapers. For historical newspaper articles
    from 1851-2003, click on Historical New York Times.
  3. Again, the Advanced Search mode offers more options. Try it!
When you find a full text article, you might want to try emailing it to yourself (click on Email). You can also get a citation to the
article.
Find an article on your topic.

Article title________________________________________________________________

Where & when was it published?______________________________________________

Search across Databases

Online Resources -- Do in the classroom or use one of the 8 stand up "express station" computers near the Reference/Information Desk.
Called federated searching, it is now possible to search across a variety of databases at one time. The
federated searching interface we have is called 360 SEARCH.

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles  
  2. Click on
  3. On the next screen, you have choices -- you can click to do different kinds of searches
    Quick Search is basic, general databases -- including the library online catalog and
    the library's eBooks Clicking on the other groupings limits search to those subject areas
    Or, you can click on Select all



    The default is that the words you type in be searched in Title fields. Try your search using that default, and then try
    searching using a Keyword search.

Note how you can narrow down by Topic, and by Source.

You can also click to limit to Full Text (over on the right):

Try searching using 360 Search. You might also want to search using Advanced Search.

What did you find?

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Find Biographical Information

Online Resources -- Do in the classroom or use one of the 8 stand up "express station" computers near the Reference/Information Desk.
Some of you have topics where finding information about people will be helpful. You'll want to use
Biography Resource Center

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles  
  2. Under Encyclopedias/Background Information (top center), click on Biography Resource Center

What did you find? _____________________________________

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Look for Web Sites on Your Own

Online Resources -- Do in the classroom or use one of the 8 stand up "express station" computers near the Reference/Information Desk.
It's one thing for you to have a reference to a URL from your textbook or instructor. It's quite another thing
for you to venture out to find a good Web site on your own. Evaluation is important! On the Evaluation
page, click to look at the Shepperton University Web site, and then the BBC news story. And explore
McWhortle.

Shepperton University is in the United Kingdom. Belford University is in Texas. Belford U is a fake university.
Keep your critical thinking cap on when using the Web!!

Google does universal searching -- it searches several of its databases simultaneously. There are two new nifty features that Google now offers: Show options, and Wonder wheel.

With Show options, Google groups your results by type, time period or other characteristic.

Click on Wonder wheel to have words associated with your topic re-grouped in new ways.

Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Search the Internet
  3. Click on Search Engines

Search for Web sites that would be useful to researching about some of topic of interest to you.
Make notes below about quality Web sites you find.


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Style Manuals -- Citing Your Sources

Online Resources -- Do in the classroom or use one of the 8 stand up "express station" computers near the Reference/Information Desk.
Want a refresher on how to reference your resources? From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click
on Internet Links On the next screen, click on Style Guides

Remember that the EBSCOhost periodicals databases and the ProQuest databases allow you to
click to cite your articles. Nifty!!

For book citations, use worldcat.org. Look up your book, then click to Cite/Export

Worldcat.org will also tell you which libraries own the book in relation to a ZIP code.

 Videos

Online Resources -- Do in the classroom or use one of the 8 stand up "express station" computers near the Reference/Information Desk.
You're probably aware that the Web now has videos galore. There are a lot of outrageous ones, of course.
But, there are bunches of good ones, too. And you should know about this growing resource. The main
sources of videos are:

To watch a video, sometimes you have to hold down Ctrl when you click to bring it up (you need to disable the
popup blocker).

Transfer an image from the Web into a Word Document

Online Resources -- Do in the classroom
The Web is rich in images, and it's useful to know how to capture an image and transfer it to a Word document.
If you copy and include the image in something you write, the origin of the image should be acknowledged.
At the minimum, give the title of the Web site and the complete URL (you can just copy and paste the URL into
your Word document).

The computers on the main floor in the library do not have Word, so you cannot do this exercise here. You
should know how to do this, though, so practice at home or somewhere else if, by chance, this is new to you.

Go to gettyimages.com. Here's how to do the transfer:

  1. From the Start menu, bring up Word
  2. Go back to Corbis or ditto where your image is. Right click on the image. Scroll down to Copy
  3. Go back to your Word document. Position your cursor to where you want your image to be. Paste
    the image (File -> Paste; or use Ctrl V)

Under (or near) the image, type the word Source, and include the title of the Web site where you got the
image and its URL.

Your image is there, in your Word document. Word is not a picture editor like Photoshop. You can make
the image larger or smaller, but you often end up with distortions, especially as you stretch it to enlarge it.
You can write next to and below the image. Putting text around the image would take another lesson. But,
at least your image is there, and you can write text near it, commenting on it.

How to Get to This Page on the Internet 
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage    <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Go to Education
  4. Under Course-Related Materials, click on Soquel High School Researchers

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T. N. Smalley
10/07; last rev. 11/09