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

2. What the library has to offer
Books
Databases
Journals
Research help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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

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