Databases
To access the electronic databases you can click on the hypertext link, or from the library homepage select Articles | Research Guides. The hypertext link provided will take you to the A-Z List and you will have to select your database from there.
The following list of databases represents only some of the resources available in a discipline. For additional help in selecting or using these resources please ask a reference librarian.
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Full text, indexes and abstracts are provided for 3,237 journals in the
collection. This database offers information in nearly every area of academic
study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences,
engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature,
medical sciences, ethnic studies and more.
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A bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews in more
than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in
the United States and elsewhere. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals
is also included. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference
proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.
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Provides full text articles and search interfaces to the journals from
Emerald Publishing inlcuding: Collection Building, Electronic Resources
Review, and Online Information Review.
Searching the catalog
If you have any trouble accessing any of the resources mentioned on this site, please ask for help at the Reference or Circulation Desks.
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In order to access the online catalog go to the Library homepage http://domweb.dom.edu/library/crown/
and select Books | Online Catalogs.
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The direct link to the Dominican Library Online Catalog is http://domweb.dom.edu/library/Crown/Books/books.htm.
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If you cannot locate the item you need at Dominican try searching all
65 ILLINET Libraries. http://library.ilcso.illinois.edu/ilcso/cgi-bin/welcome.
You can have many materials sent to Dominican from any of the 65 libraries.
Materials such as videos and reserve items may not be requested.
Books, if they have been written on your topic, will give it an extensive treatment and may provide references for further reading. To find books written on your topic, use references from encyclopedia articles and look up the titles in the ILLINET Catalog.
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Search tips:
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Use Quick Search if you know the name of a specific book.
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Select Start of Title Search from the search by box. Type in your title.
(N.B. You must know the first word of the title to use Quick Search. If
you know some words but not the first word use the Guided Search option)
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Leave out a, an, the if it is the first word of the title.
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Look for the library call number and status
Search for a topic:
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Search tips:
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Using the Any word Anywhere in Quick Search, type in likely key words
in the search box. Put quotes around phrases. Use ? to truncate. Example:
art? and "20th century".
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Click on any titles that look relevant. Note library location and call
number but also note subject headings to use in a second search for better
results. Example: Art, Modern -- 20th century. Another example:
the subject heading for bullfighting is bullfights.
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For books about an author (biography or criticism and interpretation),
use the Basic search mode. Type the author's name (Example: morrison,
toni) and change the drop down box to Subject Browse. Click on Search.
Then click on the subject heading that has the extension "Biography"
or the extension "Criticism and Interpretation" to
get to the list of books about your author.
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To limit these results to only works in English, click on the limit results
button just above the date of the first entry. Now select English from
the list of languages and click the Set More Limits button at the bottom
of the page. Scroll through the results for good records. Click on the
title of a good record to get the call number.
Remember: you can request available items from the 65 ILSCO libraries. Videos and reserve items may not be requested.
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Select the item(s) you want
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Click “Request”
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Enter your Student ID number and last name
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Select to have your materials sent to Dominican University