Professional Documents
Culture Documents
For some background information, I will look for a biography of Amelia Earhart.
You can also look for background information by going online to these library databases:
Credo Reference and Gale Virtual Reference Library.
To conduct a subject or keyword search, enter a phrase in the search box and select
“subject” or “keyword” and “Framingham State College” in the drop down menus. To
search for books in other libraries, select “All locations” instead of Framingham State
College.
For example, here’s a subject search to find books on Amelia Earhart. By doing a subject
search, it can help you narrow your topic.
Once you find a book, write down the call number to help you find the book in the
library.
All full-time and part-time Framingham State College students can borrow books from
the Whittemore Library, as well as other libraries within the Minuteman Library
Network. Day and evening students must register with the library to activate the student
ID barcode or student ID number. Borrowing privileges will expire when the student and
are no longer affiliated with the college.
I recommend that you do not limit your search only to Framingham State College. You
can always request a book from another library within Minuteman Library Network.
Usually books requested from the network are received within the week. You can also
order books from the Virtual Catalog, and the WorldCat database. These requests take
more time to process.
(If an article is available online in a FirstSearch database, it will prompt you for a full text
password. The password is fsc.)
When you get some results, select articles by “adding them to a folder”.
To find out how an article is cited, select the title of the article and select this icon. Notice
also how the article is classified with other subject terms that you can use.
If the journal is available online, the page results will list the research databases that
contain the article full text. You then need to search for the article in that particular
database.
If an article is not available full-text, you can check the red binder to see if the library
carries it in print. For questions on our print journals, please contact Deb Hogan,
periodicals supervisor, at dhogan@framingham.edu.
When creating a search in GoogleScholar, you do not need to link terms by “and” for
example: “Amelia Earhart” disappearance
Try to keep the search simple. Play around with various key words to get the best hits.
Use advanced search feature in Google.
When you are ready to cite your resources for your paper, a great resource is the Duke
University Libraries – Citing Resources page: http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/.