Study skills seminar

Research Resources for study skills

Databases | Catalog Instructions | Print Resources | Internet Sites

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.

Academic Search Premier
Full text, indexes and abstracts are provided for 8,035 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.

Opposing Viewpoints
This database is organized by topic and provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Use this database for "position", "for-or-against", "hot-topic", and/or "debate" style research papers. Researchers can choose from dozens of controversial issues listed from Abortion to Global Warming to Youth, or they can enter search terms to search by subject, keyword, or full-text.

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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

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

The print resources listed here are 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 cannot be checked out of the library.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Reference: HA202 .A3
World Almanac Book of Facts
Reference: AY67 .N5 W5 W7
World Book Encyclopedia
Reference: AE5 .W55 2004

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Internet Sites

Dominican University Academic Resource Center
http://domin.dom.edu/depts/writing/
The ARC provides citation guidelines for MLA and APA styles, as well as a comprehensive grammar guide.
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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