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CSP 56: Literature and Danger in Pre-Revolutionary France

 
General Research Help

Encyclopedias & Reference works

Books

Articles

Websites
 
FIND

THINK

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Exercise:

 

 
Encyclopedias and other reference sources may provide convenient overviews to your topic, background information, timelines and other information. Often bibliographic citations are given to more information on your topic. These sources are helpful when you do not know much about your topic, or how to break it down and decide on a particular focus.

 

The Web:

The open World Wide Web is vast and varied in its contents. It is not highly structured as library databases are. Anyone can publish electronically. Web sites may include personal opinion, deliberate hoax, credible information and academic resources. It is very important for you to critically assess a web site to make sure it is scholarly and unbiased.

Finding Books:
OASys is Oxy's Catalog, which lists books, journal titles, online resources, and other library holdings.


LINK+  is a catalog combining the holdings of over 40 participating libraries offering more than 10 million titles.
 

WorldCat includes over 54 million entries from more than 45,000 libraries.

WorldCat Interlibrary Loan requests are slower than LINK+

Finding Articles:

Indexes list the contents of individual volumes ( journal articles and chapters in books ). Journal articles represent more current research than books. Critically evaluate an article considering its author, description, language, and availability. 

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