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BOOKS
Ph.D. candidates may check out any book owned by
Prescott College, for a 6 week period. Books may be renewed
for 2 additional 6 week periods (unless another student has
placed a hold on the book). Overdue fines wil be charged:
$.25 per day, per item. We encourage all students to request
and renew books online, through the online book catalog. If there is a copy of the book you want listed as belonging to Prescott Colege, please request that book. If there is no copy owned by Prescott College, or if our copy is not checked in, go ahead and request another library's copy.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Prescott College offers a selection of scholarly
journals and journal databases, both general and subject-specific:
Academic journal databases may include conference proceedings,
book chapters, white papers, government reports, theses, both
published and unpublished, and book reviews, as well as peer-reviewed
articles. Evaluate and understand where the information is
coming from.
If you are looking for articles from a particular journal,
learn where the journal is indexed.
When the article you need is not available full-text, our
Interlibrary Loan service will provide it to you.
Using Interlibrary Loan
Some journal databases provide only a citation or
abstract of an article; sometimes you'll hear about an article
you want to read. You may request articles through Interlibrary
Loan, after first verifying that the article is not available
to you, full-text, through other Prescott College sources.
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Look up the title of the journal in the Journal Subscriptions link to learn if it is available full-text in a different database; if so, use that database.
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If the catalog says the journal is located in the Prescott
College Periodicals Room, send the complete citation to
Interlibrary
Loan*
- Check in Journal
Subscriptions and e-journals
to see if the journal is available online
* Some databases have direct
e-mail links to our Interlibrary Loan department; some do
not. If there is not a direct link, always include your full
name, program, (Ph.D.), mailing address, and e-mail address
in the subject line and/or Notes or Comments box of your e-mail
to ILL.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
- Links
to newspapers around the world, including newspaper archives
- Newspaper Source provides selected full
text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers,
including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The
Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc.
The database also contains selected full text for more than
200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe,
The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald,
The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc.
In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts
are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc. Newspaper
Source is available through the EBSCOhost
journal database.
PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS, etc.
- Papers
First Access to papers presented
at conferences - over 2,380,000 since 1993
- ProQuest
Dissertations & Theses the single, central,
authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations
and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward
include 350- word abstracts written by the author. Master's
theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
Titles available as native or image PDF formats include
free twenty-four page previews. Coverage: 1861 - Current
- Theses
Canada Search AMICUS, Canada's national online
catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in Library
and Archives Canada's theses collection, which was established
in 1965, and access and search for free the full text electronic
versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were
published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002
- Networked Digital
Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
- PhdData
This site holds a database of doctoral dissertations
in progress around the world
- Finding & Using
Primary Source Materials
Search Engines
and Academic
Search Engines
Google, and other search engines, are great for finding organizations,
schools, companies, and personal web sites. They're a good
place to start your search for information, for getting an
overview, for getting ideas on how to do a more specific search.
Try a variety of search engines - note the differences; see
which ones work best for you. Search engines are not
the best source for finding academic journal articles - use
the journal databases!
Google Scholar
search specifically for scholarly literature, including
peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts
and technical reports from all broad areas of research
RESEARCH STRATEGIES (incorporating Information
Literacy Standards for Higher Education, ACRL 2000)
The information literate individual is able to:
- Determine the extent of information needed
- Access the needed information effectively and efficiently
- Evaluate information and its sources critically
- Incorporate selected information into one's knowledge
base
- Use information effectively to accomplish a specific
purpose
- Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding
the use of information, and access and use information ethically
and legally
Ph.D. candidates will:
- Know the literature of his/her field. The student will
be familiar with journals in the field, and will understand
the publishing and refereeing process of these journals
- Know the options for accessing materials on pertinent
and relevant topics. The student will understand the various
techniques for locating materials, i.e., using Library of
Congress Subject Headings to locate books, and the difference
between doing Subject, Keyword, or Topic searches
- Be familiar with a variety of online journal databases,
and will understand the difference between using these databases
and using a search engine to find information on the Internet
- Know how to access materials through Interlibrary Loan
- Know how to critically evaluate material in terms of relevance
and validity according to such criteria as authorship, timeliness,
and scholarly vs. popular source
- know the appropriate bibliographic and documentation format
used in his/her discipline, including information from both
print and electronic sources
- Plan and execute a search strategy showing familiarity
with a variety of sources, including online catalogs and
journal databases, print indexes, the Internet, and non-library
sources, including personal contacts
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