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Dr. Lisa Pollard Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu

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Your Current Research Skills? How would you rate your current research skills? Strong Satisfactory Needs improvement Poor What causes you the most anxiety/confusion/frustration with research?

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Our plan for the library sessions Review Research Guide for this course.Research Guide Explore various search tools. Learn to identify primary sources. Become familiar with special services. Interlibrary Loan Ask a librarian

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Where to get help Learning Commons Help Desk In person Telephone Email Chat Text By Appointment Contact me directly: andrewsk@uncw.eduandrewsk@uncw.edu

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Resource Types Primary vs. Secondary (more next time) Articles Scholarly Popular Books Theses & Dissertations Websites

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Finding Articles Home page Article Search (WorldCat Local) Databases A-Z Individual databases Databases by Subject Citation Searching

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Database Exploration America: History & Life JSTOR Academic Search Complete

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Search tips And, Or, Not And narrows Or adds synonyms/related Not excludes (use carefully) Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina Civil rights AND North Carolina AND movement Movement OR activism OR civil disobedience

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More Search Tips Truncate for word variations Activis* = activist, activism Words anywhere or phrase? Be all you can be vs. Be all you can be Field-specific searches American Historical Review in Source

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So Many Collections So Little Time! American Presidency Project AMDOCS Documents for the Study of American History AMDOCS Hathi Trust >10,000,000 volumes Hathi Trust Project Gutenberg >42,000 e-books Project Gutenberg Making of America Cornell University of Michigan Online Speech Bank Women and Social Movements in the US, 1600-2000

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BibliographiesFollow the trail Book-length (Reference Collection) Secondary sources (books and journal articles) Types Classified (easiest to find primary sources) Alphabetical Footnotes/Endnotes What can you find?

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Government Documents FDLP Federal Depository Library Program was established by Congress to ensure that the American public has access to its Governments information anyone can access depository libraries and use its collections Regional and Selective Depositories UNCW is a large selective at @ 75% Classified by publishing agency SuDocs

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Government Documents Fdsys Federal Digital System Fdsys Americas Authentic Government Information FedStats Statistics from more than 100 agencies and sub-agencies of federal and states government HeinOnline Congressional documents, court cases, etc. ProQuest Congressional Congressional Documents

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What will you do when you have questions?

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Kristin Andrews andrewsk@uncw.edu General Library Help http://library.uncw.edu