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Cabrillo
College Library
M. Teresa Macdeo
What's
on this page:
NGOs working for social change
Country
info
Web
sites with global view
Rights,
minorities, health
News
from around the world
Periodical
articles
Newspaper
articles
Web
searching
Writing
the research paper
Getting
to this page on the Internet
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your
name__________________________________
Before we get started: Free Rice || the world at night || Prudhoe Bay || Egypt
Where this page is on the Internet
- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <libwww.cabrillo.edu> c
- Click on Internet Links
- On the next screen, select Sociology
- Scroll down and under Course-related Materials, click on SOC 9, Global Society & Culture
- I have probably already made this page a Favorite on the computer in the classroom. Check to see -- Click on Favorites toward the top of your screen (kinda over on the left). If it's not listed there, you'll want to make this Web page a Favorite. Click on Favorites; click on Add to Favorites; click on Add. Now, you can earily get back to this Web page by click on Favorites on the top toolbar.
Rules of the road 1. If you want, you can open a Word document to write your notes instead of writing on this handout. Remember to save every once in a while!! 2. We like to support students doing research here in the classroom, so while you are here today, printing is free -- up to, say, 20 pages a person.
| NGOs working for social change -- from your textbook |
Arab Women's Solidarity Association
Basel Action Network (BAN)
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)
50 Years is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
Global Exchange
Global Policy Forum
Greenpeace
India Resource Center
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA)
MADRE: Demanding Human Rights for Women and Families Around the World
Medecins San Frontieres (Doctors without Borders or MSF)
Navdanya Seeds of Freedom
Public Services International (PSI)
RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Refugee Women in Development (RefWID), Inc. (Web page no longer available) There is a Refugee Women's Network, Inc.
Trickle Up
Visions in Action Volunteers in International Development
World Development Movement (WDM)
WANGO World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations. Click on Worldwide NOG Directory.
Want to find other NGOs like these? Use Google to look up an NGO and then click to look for Similar pages. For example, if I wanted to find an NGO similar to Navdanya Seeds of Freedom:
Sometimes, you will want to get more information about a country so that you can better understand what the NGO is doing or contending with as it works in that global setting. CountryWatch is a useful database for this.
- Go
to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click
on Full Text Articles
- Click
on CountryWatch (in center column under
Encyclopedias/Background). [If you are coming in from off campus,
use your library card number to validate yourself as a Cabrillo student.]
Click on COUNTRY REVIEW (on left) and bring up the file on your country. Note that there
is a SOCIAL OVERVIEW section.
Your notes________________________________________________
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Other good country overviews
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AsiaNewsNet
- Google
News
Type in a the name of an NGO to get new and breaking news
- NewsScrape
International Broadcast News, Inc. TV news from around the world (Hold
down the Ctrl key (lower left of keyboard) as you
click to bring up a broadcast, to disable the popup blocker)
Other
- WorldNews
- world-newspapers.co
Web Sites
that Take a Global View
Look for a search box on these sites to search for information about
your country
Rights,
Minorities, Refugees, Freedom, Health, etc. Look
for a search box on these sites to search for information about your country
A very large periodicals database
is Academic Search Premier from EBSCOhost.
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Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
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Click
on Full Text Articles, then on Academic Search Premier
[If you are coming in from off campus, your user ID is your
library card number]
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On
the next screen, click to go to the Advanced Search mode
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To
retrieve only full text articles, click in the small box next to
Full Text
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Type
in your search terms. Here's a search for information about Basel Action Network:
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Then click on 
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When
you get your results list, click on the article title to get full
information about it.
Note that you can email the articles, and also bring up citations to the article:
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Google has a database that collects periodical articles. Not all of them are full text, but it is a useful and growing resource. Go to scholar.google.com and try it out!
Your notes_________________________________________________
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| Newspaper
Articles using ProQuest Newspapers |
- Go to the
Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click on
Full Text Articles
- Under News
(over on right), click to select ProQuest Newspapers
Information
about articles you found:
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You
can email these articles to yourself. And cite them. Nifty!
Go to Google.com.
It's the largest Web search engine and, arguably, the best.
Since July
2007, Google does "universal searching"
-- it will search several of its databases simultaneously and alert
you when there are substantial results in one of its specialized
databases. Look at this search for information on Indonesia and
poverty and children:
Google is telling
me that not only are there resources on the Web that respond to
my inquiry, but I should also check out its books database. 
There are 759 books I might want to delve into!
Make
notes here about what you find on the Web. Include enough information
in your notes so that you can cite the sources, and/or get back
to them later.
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If you're tired
of using Google, here are two other search engines to try. Once you
do your search, both of them make suggestions as to how you might narrow
AND how you might broaden your search. Give them a try: Ask.com
|| Exalead.com
One last thing: worldcat.org Search library catalogs around the world, find your book in a nearby library, and cite it!!
| Writing
the Research Paper, and Writing Citations |
You can use Google
Books to look up chapters in books about researching and writing
papers. Here are some suggestions:
Also available
in the Cabrillo Library's electronic book collection is The Research
Project: How to Write It -- Routledge Study Guides; 5th Ed. by
Berry, Ralph. London Taylor & Francis Routledge, 2004. To get to
the NetLibrary ebooks:
- Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>Click on Full
Text ArticlesClick on NetLibrary
eBooks
- Look up the title: The Research Project: How to Write It. There are several similar books available as well.
Now that you have found all this wonderful stuff, how do you cite it?
Here's how to get to guides that will help you -- from the Cabrillo
College Library homepage, click on Internet Links, then click
on Style Guides.
Or use Worldcat -- Search for your book or article, then click on Cite this Item. Amazing!!
Okay: I can't resist. This has nothing to do with this class. But Google has just come out with these:
Google Mars || Google Moon || Google Sky
Getting
to this page on the Internet
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Go
to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
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Click
on Internet Links
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Click
on Sociology
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Scroll
down, and under Course-Related Materials, click
on Soc 9, Global Society & Culture
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