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Here are some resources to help you prepare your papers:
Link to Library Home Page
Forms for Requesting Materials
Frequently Asked Questions
Information Literacy Modules - online tutorials to help you build your research skills
Westlaw -
Online legal research service provides quick, easy access to West's vast
collection of statutes, case law materials, public records and other legal
resources, as well as current news articles and business information.
Search for a variety of articles in magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers.
Law Journals:
LegalTrac - Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
Business Topics:
Business and Company Resource Center
Business & Company ASAP database.
Criminal Justice:
InfoTrac Criminal Justice - A subset of Academic OneFile, this database provides full-text articles related to criminal justice.
InfoTrac War & Terrorism database.
Psychology & Sociology:
InfoTrac Psychology Collection - A subset of Academic OneFile, this database provides full-text articles related to psychology.
PsycINFO - Contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages. You will get the best results if your search uses the database's subject terms!
SocINDEX with Full Text - contains full text for 253 "core" coverage sociology journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
General Databases:
Academic OneFile (scholarly materials)
General OneFile (popular publications, like Time, Sports Illustrated)
ProQuest Newstand (full-text articles from major newspapers, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal)
Custom Newspapers (full-text articles from newspapers, including those in Boise, Portland, Seattle, and Spokane)
LCSC Library Catalog - provides information about the materials owned by the LCSC Library and other North Idaho Academic Libraries, including North Idaho College and the University of Idaho.
Virtual Reference Library - Search a collection on online reference books from Gale, a respected publisher of subject-focused encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Reference Books Online! [If asked to log in, use the same login/password you use for journal databases. If you don't know how to login to journal databases either, contact the Reference Librarians.]:
Encyclopedia of the Global Economy : A Guide for Students and Researchers.
Volume 1: 168 encyclopedic entries on key topics related to international economics and trade.
Volume 2: Primary documents and statistical data related to international trade.
Encyclopedia of American civil rights and liberties / Otis H. Stephens, Jr., John M. Scheb II, Kara E. Stooksbury, editors.
Encyclopedia of American foreign policy : Alexander DeConde, Richard Dean Burns, and Fredrik Logevall, editors in chief.
Encyclopedia of business and finance: Burton S. Kaliski, editor-in-chief.
Encyclopedia of crime and justice / Dressler, Joshua, Editor in Chief.
Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity / Dinah Shelton, ed.
Encyclopedia of privacy / William G. Staples, editor.
Gender issues and sexuality: essential primary sources / K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, editors.
Global AIDS policy / edited by Douglas A. Feldman.
The Statesman’s Yearbook 2007: the politics, cultures and economies of the world / edited by Barry Turner.
WorldCat - A catalog of items held at libraries throughout the world. Many of these materials can be borrowed through inter-library loan. This database also provides more in-depth cataloguing to materials owned by LCSC.
Google Books - Info from their Website: "Just do a search on Google Book Search or on Google.com. When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see, like a card catalog entry, some basic information about the book. You may also see a few snippets of text from the book showing your search term in context. If the publisher or author has given us permission through our Partner Program then you'll see a few full pages from the book and if the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to page through the entire book." Click on the "About This Book" link and look for a link called "Find This Book in a Library" to locate the nearest library holdings.
Business Information:
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage - Provides basic financials, stock advisories, news and industry analysis for thousands of public companies.
Juvenile Justice:
Census of juveniles in residential placement databook
Juvenile arrests - Various publications put out by the U.S. government.
Highlights of the ... national youth gang survey - A publication of the U.S. Government.
Child maltreatment: reports from the states to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System.
International Relations & Peace Studies:
BBC news, country profiles: Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
The Quest for Peace Interviews 1983-1989 - Videos of half-hour interviews with a wide range of world-renowned experts such as Condoleezza Rice, Norman Cousins, John Kenneth Galbraith and Julian Bond on the pursuit of lasting world peace in a nuclear age. These interviews were conducted between 1983-1989 by UCI Prof. John M. Whiteley and were broadcast throughout the US on cable and public access stations. This project is a collaboration of Professor Whiteley with the University of California Irvine's Libraries, the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center and Network and Academic Computing Services.
Voices of civil rights - Put together by the AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress.
Terrorism & Crime:
The 9/11 Commission report - final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.
Annotated bibliography of government documents - Documents related to the threat of terrorism and the attacks of September 11, 2001 [electronic resource] / U.S. Government Information, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
County-level population data for Idaho: Percent change in population for the state of Idaho.
Crime in Idaho: Criminal statistics for the state of Idaho.
Understanding Copyright:
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States : A guide to the kinds of work protected by copyright. Provided by Cornell University.
10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained: The name says it all. Written by Brad Templeton.
The U.S. Copyright Office - Includes helpful information under their FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).
Government Search Engines:
USA.gov
- A search engine for government Web pages, with an emphasis on the Executive
Branch of the Federal Government. Another good source of statistics.
Public laws - Public and private laws are prepared and published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
GPO
Access - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the
Legislative Branch of the Federal Government. Provided by the Government
Printing Office.
Thomas - An easy-to-search source for legislative information, provided by the Library of Congress.
I-Docs - An online collection of
paper and digital resources selectively chosen from published Idaho Government
Documents.
Standardized Tests:
Test Prep Review -- Free access to sample questions from many standardized tests, such as graduate school entrance exams and certification exams.
Citations:
Knight Cite -- An automatic generator of citations in either MLA, APA, or Chicago style. Registering for the service allows you to save citations to generate a bibliography. A free service provided by the Hekman Library at Calvin College.
APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.
Bibliographies : MLA Format - Guidance provided by the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop.
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
Research Paper Help:
Idea Generator - organized by general subject areas. A service of the Library at Old Dominion University. You can use these simple keywords to help you generate ideas of your own for focused research paper topics.
Assignment Calculator - Based on the start date and due date for your assignment, this calculator will map out benchmarks for completing tasks leading up to the final paper. It also provides links to other pages with tips on understanding your assignment, focusing your topic, etc. It was developed by the library at the University of Minnesota, so a few of its linked resources are not available to you. But we have many similar resources available to you on this campus.
Online Writing Lab - A service of the Humanities Division at LCSC, this center provides one-on-one advice from other students on improving your papers before turning them in.
For more websites, see the complete list.
Page Author: Barbara Barnes
Last updated: January 30, 2008
