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Rules of the road for today's session: 1) You are welcome to open Word and take notes that way, and print out your notes when you're finished. 2) When you are here with your class in a session like this, we do allow free printing -- up to about 30 pages per student. The printer is in the front of the classroom. CQ Researcher Each report covers a single topic of current political or social interest. In 20 to 30 pages, major aspects of the topic are outlined, along with background information and a description of the current situation. Since summer 2007, includes CQ Global Researcher covering topics of international interest.
Search for coverage
of your topic. Make notes here about what you find. Note that you can
email these articles to yourself -- the email button gives you a variety of options
Other good resources
Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage and click on Library Catalog. There is a link to the Cabrillo College Library homepage at the top of this page.
You're welcome to go downstairs to the stacks and get some books!
The Library provides access to many online databases. The one you will use most, probably, is Academic Search Premier -- it provides indexing for about 8,000 periodicals, and full text articles for just over half of those.
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Type in your search terms and hit
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Use Academic Search Premier to identify at least one periodical article on your topic. From the results list, click on the article title to get to the screen with full information about it.
For fun, go back
to Academic Search Premier, and try a Visual
Search. Wow!! Academic
Search Premier will be your primary database for high quality
articles on your debate topic.
Use ProQuest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor)
Again, the Advanced Search mode offers more options. Try it!
Again: there's an email feature -- how cool.
There are many statistical resources you can use, online and in print. It will be helpful to gain some experience with both. RAND California (California and U.S. Statistics) From the library homepage, select Full Text Articles. Under Social Sciences, select RAND California. General statistical
information about the United States ----Online---- Or go to the Statistics Resources page under the library's Internet Links for more choices.
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! Since July 2007, Google uses what they call universal search -- results draw from across their databases, and you'll be alerted if there are substantial resources in Google databases in addition to the one you're using. For example, here's in Google's Web database for resources that include the phrase "efficacy of the war on drugs." Google tells you in response that there are resources in Google Books you might want to look at. The URL for Google Books is books.google.com.
Here, I've done a search for information about the Project for a New American Century, the neoconservatives manifesto (1997+) and the word oil. Google alerts me to the fact that there's a video that fits the search requirements. The URL for Google Videos is video.google.com. (Google bought YouTube)  Here I am searching for the phrase "Bush administration" and the word surveillance. Google alerts me that there are resources in its News database I might be interested in. To get to Google's News database the URL is news.google.com.
Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines
Search for Web sites that would be useful to researching about your topic.
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 the video, on these public machines in the classroom, you have to hold down the Ctrl key when you click to bring up the video. (Notice what it says at the bottom of the screen.) This is to disable the popup blocker. How do you reference your resources?
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 don't know how to do this in your sleep -- you can practice here: 1. Open a Word document if you don't already have one open (Start -> Word). 2. Go to one of these sources of photos on the Web and select an image.
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
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towards the top of the screen, then on Add.
Now, you'll be able to go back to this page easily in this class session
by clicking on 
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With the Advanced search screen, you can most efficiently
search more than one term at a time. 
