Cabrillo College
Library

Adela Najarro

What's on this page

Find Periodical Articles

Use CQ Researcher

Find Newspaper Articles

Use Encyclopedias

Community Workers

Get to this Internet Page

your name___________________

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.

To identify periodical articles on your topic:

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

And you'll want to limit to Full Text:

Here's a search for articles that are about migrant farm workers:

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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1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
3. 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 community problem. What did you find?

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1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles
3. 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 migrant workers in California.

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.

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
3. Click on Ethnic Newswatch (top right, under News) If you are off campus, you'll be asked to type in
   your library card number.

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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1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
3. 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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The Santa Cruz City/County Public Library has a database you can use to identify people and organizations
that work in the community. To get to the database:

1. Go to the Santa Cruz Public Library Web site

2. Click on Local Information and then on Community Information Database

Here's a search for agencies that reach out to farmworkers:

If you use the Community Information Database, make notes here about what you find: _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________

Getting to this page on the Internet

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library home page <libwww.cabrillo.edu>
2. Click on Internet Links, then click on English
3. Under Course-Related Materials click on English 100, Adela Najarro

A. Najarro and T.N. Smalley Fall 09