LIBRARY RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

TYPES AND CREDIBILITY OF SOURCES Popular  Glossy Pictures  Advertising  Biased  No Bibliography  Author / Publisher Credentials Scholarly  Lots of Text and Graphs and Charts  Minimal or No Advertising  Research-based  Bibliography  Author / Publisher Credentials

TYPES AND CREDIBILITY OF SOURCES Websites .com – commercial – biased .org – organization – biased / unbiased .gov – government – unbiased .edu – education – unbiased

BACKGROUND RESOURCES Encyclopedias  Wikipedia  Gale Virtual Reference Library  Credo Reference World Wide Web Databases  Opposing Viewpoints In Context  CQ Researcher  Academic Search Premier

BOOKS Library Catalog (Books & More) PsycBOOKS Ebrary netLibrary Google Book Search

ARTICLE DATABASES PsycINFO Family & Society Studies Worldwide Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection PsycEXTRA Social Sciences Abstracts Social Work Abstracts

CREATE A SEARCH  Keywords or Subject Terms  Boolean Operators or Connectors o AND o OR o NOT  Phrase Searching  Truncation o*o*  Thesaurus

THESAURUS / SUBJECTS Main Term Broader Terms Narrower Terms Explode Major Concept