• Starting Your Research  -- Search Statement
   
• Reference Sources (Print & Electronic)
  
  
• Full-text Articles (Print & Electronic Journals and Newspapers)  - click for off campus access
  
  
• Online Catalogs (Books, Journal Holdings, Maps, Videos, Software, Other materials)
  

• Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
  
  
• Scholarly Journals
  
  
• Evaluating Sources   

Example

Start by identifying your search terms in the statement above and break them down into narrower, synonymic and broader terms.  You will use these terms for searches in journal article databases.  Can you think of others?

Encyclopedias

Access Science

Encyclopeida of Science Technolgy and Ethics
Q 175.35 E53 2005 Vol 1-4

Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery
REF Q175.46 S35

The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia
REF Q127 U6 H57 2000

Dictionary of Scientific Biography
REF Q141 .D5 -- v.1-17 

• General Article Databases @ http://www.smcvt.edu/library/databases/subject/general.asp
  All of the databases and indexes below may be reached from this page.  Also, information about accessing databases off-campus is available here.
  
  Academic Search Premier
  Excellent source for full text journals and scholarly articles

  Example search:  soci* AND "technolog* impact"

  Academic OneFile
  Includes abstracts or references for articles from more than 3,000 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications, as well as references for The New York Times.  Full-text coverage for 1900 titles. 
  
  Example Search: Luddites
   

• Computer Science
   

  ProQuest Computing Example Search - history and "technological change"	Info
  Computer Database	Info
  MathSciNet	Info

  
   

• Newspapers Databases @ http://www.smcvt.edu/library/databases/newspapers.asp

Wall Street Journal Current 

Wall Street Journal Historical

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
The LEXIS-NEXIS Academic database offers full text coverage for news, business, legal and medical information. Sources include newspapers, magazines, wire service news, newsletters, journals, company and industry reports, broadcast transcripts and reference databases.  International sources included from publications published in country of origin.

New York Times Online (1851-2001) - excellent for primary surces
Full-image articles for the New York Times from 1851-2001. 

For full-text coverage (no images) of the New York Times after 2001, use New York Times Current (1980-present)

ProQuest National Newspapers
 

• History

Historical Abstracts
History and related fields.

JSTOR
Full text archive of over 115 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years.

Project Muse
Approx. 200  full text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. 

click for   off campus access

Saint Michael's College Online Catalog
http://voyager.smcvt.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First 

University of Vermont's Online Catalog
http://voyager.uvm.edu/

WorldCat 
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=WorldCat;done=referer;FSIP
Through OCLC FirstSearch. The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 42 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge, and holdings information from the world's libraries.
*-you may ILL documents that SMC does not own electronically from this database

• Students may request materials (journal articles, books) not available in the SMC library through ILL.  It is important that ILL is done early in your research project as it may take from 10 to 14 days for the materials to be delivered to the SMC Library.

• Note: You may now take books out of the UVM Library using your SMC ID

You may start the ILL process by either:

1. ONLINE Form is available to submit electronically @
http://www.smcvt.edu/library/departments/ill/

2. The following Indexes allow ILL directly from the index interface:
   - Ebscohost Databases
   - Religion Database
   - WorldCat
   - Catholic Periodical and Literature Index

Consider journal articles from Scholarly sources.  These sources are often the result of original research included references and bibliographies of sources consulted.  These journals are also often refereed or peer reviewed.  Consult with your professor or stop by the library.  More information @ http://academics.smcvt.edu/sburks/scholarly_journals.htm

You should evaluate all your sources (particularly the Internet) for 

• Authority
• Accuracy
• Objectivity
• Currency 
• Coverage

See http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html  for a thorough review of evaluating sources