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:
[email protected]@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 [email protected] General Library Help
http://library.uncw.edu