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What's on this page

Find Newspaper Articles

Find Supporting Evidence

CREDO Reference

Cite Your Sources

Get to this Internet Page

 

 

 

 


 


 
 Find Newpaper Articles

Use ProQuest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor) 
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
  2. Click on Full Text Articles  
  3. Under News (over on right), click on Proquest Newspapers

Type in religion just to get a sense of what is available. Articles are presented in descending order by date, with the most recent at the top. From the results list, you can select an article, and/or select a specific subject to use in a subsequent search.

Here is a search for the word Muslim.

Click on the article title to get to full information about the article and the article itself.

In the Proquest databases, when you view your selected document, you can click to have it cited!!

 

Use Google Google has a database composed JUST of news stories. It's at news.google.com Click to go to Advanced news search.

Since Google searches hundreds of news sources here and abroad, large and small, it'll be easier on you if you select specific papers to search. Here's a search for the words religion and morality used in a news story in The Washington Post, to be sorted by date, newest first.

  Find Supporting Evidence

Periodical articles -- Use library online databases.

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
  2. Click on Full Text Articles  
  3. Academic Search Premier (top left) is the largest, but there are others. Or, search multiple databases at once using 360 Search.

Using Academic Search Premier, I might then identify the following article:

Books -- Use NetLibrary eBooks

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
  2. Click on Full Text Articles  
  3. NetLibrary eBooks

Suppose I used NetLibrary eBooks and found this:

I can get a formatted citation for books by going to Worldcat.org.
Other sources for books: go to libraries (!!). Or, go to books.google.com. If you use the Advanced Search mode, you can limit years published and whether the book is fully available. Google is digitizing millions of books from 27 libraries -- all of Stanford, all of Harvard, all of University of California, all of Oxford University in England and 23 other large, beautiful libraries. Robot digitizer. 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.

  CREDO Referemce

CREDO Reference offers access to articles in over 350 specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries through one easy interface. CREDO Reference offers easy, handy access to quick lookups -- definitions, clarifications, brief explanations of words and concepts.

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
  2. Click on Full Text Articles  
  3. Under Encyclopedias/Background Information (in the center), click on CREDO Reference

  Cite Your Sources

How do you reference your resources?

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links
  2. On the next screen, click on Style Guides
Remember: ProQuest and EBSCOhost offer one click approaches to cition creation with the databases. For book citations, use WorldCat.org.

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. Click on Philosophy
  4. Under Course-Related Materials, click on PHILO 8 Philosophy of Religion, C. Close

C. Close; T.N. Smalley last rev. 9/09