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You can take notes on this exercise. Or, if you would like, you can start a Word document and take notes
that way. You'll probably email yourself the articles and other materials you find. If you need to print,
limit yourself to 10 to 15 pages.
First: Glaciers melting and surfing -- a little video
To identify periodical articles on your topic:
- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
- Click on Adademic Search Premier (top left, under General) If you are off campus, you'll be asked to type in
your library card number.
Click to go to the Advanced Search Mode
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Here's a search for articles that are about global warming and the Maldives -- an island country in the Indian Ocean:
Once you get a list of results, click on the article title to get to full information about it.
Once you bring up the whole article, note that you can click to print, email, and save the article.
Also: you can click to cite it!! How cool is that?? 
Your turn! Use Academic Search Premier to look for articles on your topic. What did you find?
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- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
- Click on CQ Researcher (top left, under General). If you are off campus, you'll be asked to type in your library
card number.
Note that you can email the document to yourself. Great way to control the information sources you find!
You can even click to get a citation to the report -- 
Your turn. Try using CQ Researcher for information on your topic. What did you find?
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- From the Cabrillo
College Library homepage
- Click on Full
Text Articles
- Under News/Newspapers, click on Proquest Newspapers (If you are coming in from off campus, type in
your library card number.)
Use the Advanced Search mode. Here's a search for articles about global warming and permafrost:
Note that you can print and email this article, and also get a formatted citation for it.
Your turn! Look for some newspaper articles on your topic. What did you find?
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Another database to explore is Ethnic NewsWatch.
- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
- Click on Ethnic Newswatch (top right, under News) If you are off campus, you'll be asked to type in
your library card number.
Here's a search for global warming and Mexico:
Note that you can change the interface language to Spanish: 
If you search Ethnic NewsWatch, you can make notes here about what you find:
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| Find Books using the Cabrillo Library Online Catalog |
- From the Cabrillo
College Library homepage
- Click on Library
Catalog
- Start with a Keyword Search
Look for information in the online catalog on your topic. What did you find?
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Electronic
books The library offers an extraordinary collection of electronic books,
currently numbering about 18,000. The amazing thing is that you can
search words used inside of all those thousands of books. This
is a great approach to getting very specific information about narrow
topics. The easiest way to get access to them:
- From the Cabrillo
College Library homepage
- Click on Full
Text Articles (second icon down on left)
- Under General,
click on NetLibrary E-Books
If you are off campus, when you click on the name of one of the full text databases, you'll be prompted to type in your library card number.
Look for information in the electronic books on your topic. What did you find?
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- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
- Under Encyclopedias/Background information you can select an encyclopedia in English
(Encyclopaedia Britannica) or one in Spanish (Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol)
What did you find?
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| Use Google and Google Books |
Google is now grouping results for you by type and date...and other characteristics. Once you have a results list, look for Show Options.
And you might want to play around with this new feature: Wonder Wheel. It will suggest to you new ways of narrowing your topic!
Use Google to search for Web pages on your topic. What did you find?
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Google is digitizing
millions of books. Book scanner. Every
single page in every book is being digitized, but not every page of
every book is available -- yet. There's a publishers' lawsuit that
restricts access to recently published titles. But information wants
to be free, I think, and it will eventually work out. Even at this stage,
there are vast amounts of full text available that it is useful to explore.
Now, switch over to Google Books. To go to Google books directly, it's books.google.com.
Look for information in Google Books on your topic. What did you find?
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The Web is an open
publishing environment. Anyone can publish, and sometimes it seems as
though everyone does! It is very important to evaluate what you find.
In searching the Web, you want to use resources that are not only recent
and relevant to your topic, but that are also based on reliable, quality
information resources.
Suppose you wanted to use something from EnergyCitizens.org. Research the organization. SourceWatch will often have something that will help you evaluate the information being presented.
For example, an organization called the Heartland Institute sponsored a conference on Global Warming in New York City early in March 2008 and again in March 2009. Suppose you read this in an article in the New York Times about the gathering:
"In a keynote talk Sunday night, Richard S. Lindzen, a professor at M.I.T. and a longtime skeptic of the mainstream consensus that global warming poses a danger, first delivered a biting attack on what he called the "climate alarm movement." There is no solid scientific evidence to back up the models used by climate scientists who warn of dire consequences if warming continues, he said."
You can then go to SourceWatch to see who funds, in part, the Heartland Institute
The Internet makes
it very easy to disseminate propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. There are Web sites set up to look professional but that offer misleading "information." An example is Sweetscam -- which is a front group for tobacco, restaurant and alcoholic beverage industries. Berman and Company: The Power to Change the Debate.
The Hate Directory lists lots of Web sites, blogs, mailing lists and so forth.
Then there are Web
sites that are "just for fun." For example, there's a Web site for
the country of Molossia. Whitehouse.net is a spoof. Evaluation is important.
There are lots
of places to get images on the Web. Here are two of the better collections:
There are lots of
places to get access to videos on the Web. The biggest, with the best
quality videos is Blinkx.com.
| Helpful Guides and Writing those Citations! |
Getting
to this page on the Internet
- Go to the Cabrillo
College Library home page <libwww.cabrillo.edu>
- Click on Internet
Links, then click on English
- Under Course-Related Materials, click on English 100, Elements of Writing, Barbara Bloom
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