Prof. Hazzard’s COM 1113 Class

Databases discussed in class: 

CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly) – Online reference work containing non-biased coverage of political and social issues.

Opposing Viewpoints Online reference work containing various viewpoints of political and social issues.

Academic Search Premier Multidisciplinary database containing articles from journals, newspapers and magazines.

Searching tips in our databases

Remember the examples we did in class…

Well, here’s another!

When we add a * to the end of words such as disorders and sororities.

“eating disorder*” soror*

The database is now looking for the words: disorder, disorders, sororities, sorority, etc., etc.

Another trick we added was that OR

“eating disorder*” or bulimi* soror*

Now the databases is searching for anything dealing with eating disorders/disorder and sororities/sorority OR bulimia/bulimic/bulimics and sororities/sorority

Looking for a book, cd, dvd, etc.?

UCO Library Catalog Searches for materials in our library including books, DVD’s, CD’s, government publications, archives and special collections, etc.  Does not search for articles.

APA Citation Help

APA Style Guide – Consult our library guide for correct information on citing sources (http://library.ucok.edu/instruction/APA5th.pdf).

OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) - Offers examples of citing sources using APA (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/)

APA Website Gives updated information not included in the latest APA print manual (http://apastyle.apa.org/)

Knight Cite (http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/) and Son of Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/) 

Remember when using the automatic citation in EBSCOHost– Always check your results with the APA manual!!

Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text! You can even comment on this blog’s posting and we’ll get back to you! 

We’ll see you around the library!

Allan & Amanda