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Search Tips

When searching the online catalog or any electronic database remember these brief tips.

Remove the first article (a, an, the) when searching for a title.

Truncate terms to allow for plural or alternate endings. The symbol for truncation is usually a ? or an *. (e.g. stress* = stress, stresses, stressed, etc.)

Use BOOLEAN operators, AND and OR to either narrow or broaden your search. AND narrows, OR expands.

Enclose phrases in quotations marks. (e.g. "united states", "latin america", etc.)

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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Catalog Instructions

If you have any trouble accessing any of the resources mentioned on this site, please ask for help at the Reference or Circulation Desks.

In order to access the online catalog go to the Library homepage http://domweb.dom.edu/library/crown/ and select Books | Online Catalogs.
The direct link to the Dominican Library Online Catalog is http://domweb.dom.edu/library/Crown/Books/books.htm.
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. Items such as videos and reserve materials 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.

Search tips:

Use Quick Search if you know the name of a specific book.
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)
Leave out a, an, the if it is the first word of the title.
Look for the library call number and status

Search for a topic:

Search tips:

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".
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.
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.
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.

Select the item(s) you want
Click “Request”
Enter your Student ID number and last name
Select to have your materials sent to Dominican University

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Print Resources

There are many books relating to Education and Educational Psychology in the main stacks of the library. The call numbers for these topics are L (General Education) and LB (Education Theory and Practice). The materials in the main stacks may be checked out from the library.

Listed below are reference resources available in the Rebecca Crown Library Reference Collection located on the lower level. If you need any assistance with locating these materials please ask for help at the Reference Desk. These materials may not be checked out of the library.

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Internet Sites

ONLINE! Citation Styles Index
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html Comprehensive guide to citing electronic resources including personal and professional websites, electronic books, articles from e-journals, e-magazines, or e-newspapers, scholarly publications, and government documents. Covers MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, and CBE.

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