Icap Spring 2014 Brittany Biesiada Using the Library Icap Spring 2014 Brittany Biesiada

What the library has to offer Books Databases Journals Research help

Purdue’s library resources From Purdue library Databases Journals Articles Book chapters Conference papers Abstracts Dissertations

The Internet Search engines vs. databases Free web vs. private web Google scholar Free web vs. private web

WWW vs. Internet World wide web vs. Internet What can be searched by Google and invisible to them Paid databases The Invisible Web Censorship

Wikipedia What should you use Wikipedia for and not use it for? What is it useful for?

Judging Websites Select websites for us to analyze as a class. How can we evaluate the “trustworthiness” of information on websites?

Databases Lexus Nexus ProQuest Academic Search Premier EbscoHost JSTOR World CAT Humanities Abstract MLA

Databases Contain Journals Look for peer-reviewed articles/journals Have to evaluate your scholarly sources

Reviewing the Resources Search the Catalog Select an individual record Find the physical item Search for articles Advanced Search Search for databases

Strategies for searches What did we read in the “Composing Yourself” book?

ILL and UBorrow When books are checked out or the library does not own the material: ILL: books and articles Uborrow: Books from Big Ten schools

Looking at the Library website http://www.lib.purdue.edu To find databases: Alphabetical Look through all Sub-category Also have library guides/research guides by subject area