Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Moon - Exploration & Habitation

EBSCOhost Articles: SUBJECT (moon and (research or exploration)) AND (habitat* or fuel or life support or water or air or hydroponic* or food or station or base) - 450+ full text articles

ProQuest Articles: SU(moon) AND (habitat* or fuel or life support or water or air or hydroponic* or food or station or base or colon*) - 2800 full text articles

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

First Crusade

Paine, Mike. "The First And Second Crusades." Crusades. Harpenden, GBR: Pocket Essentials, 2001. Ebrary. Web

Williams, Paul L. "The First Crusade." Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades. Indianapolis, IN: Alpha, 2002. Ebrary. Web.

Erdmann, Carl. "BYZANTIUM AND JERUSALEM: THE MOTIVE AND THE OBJECTIVE OF THE FIRST CRUSADE." p.355-371. The origin of the idea of crusade. Princeton UP, 1977. ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection. Web.

Morrisson, Cécile. "Crusades." Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Ed. André Vauchez. 2001. Osford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Web.

"The First Crusade" - Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Ed. Paul Halsall. includes Urban II: Speech at Clermont: Five Versions. Web.

Knox, Ellis L. "The First Crusade." 1999. The ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies. Web. "The ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies."

Monday, April 4, 2011

Black Death

Ebooks

Martin, Sean. Black Death. Pocket Essentials, 2001.

Scott, Susan and Christopher J. Duncan. "The Great Pestilence." Chapter 4 of Biology of Plagues : Evidence from Historical Populations. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Full Text EBSCOhost magazine and journal articles on the Subject: Black Death

Gale Virtual Reference Library
"Bubonic plague." The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. 4th ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 678-680.

Vickery, R.C. "Bubonic Plague." Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia. Ed. Glenn D. Considine. 10th ed. Vol. 1. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, 2008. 821-822.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Child Cognitive Development and Education

Catalog (Books, Ebooks):

Articles: EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: Subject: Piaget OR Vygotsky

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Journalism in War

The majority of our scholarly periodicals that specifically cover journalism may be found in ProQuest. A search limited to full text scholarly journals like SU(journalis* or media or reporting or reporter*) AND SU(war) AND NOT AT(book review) offers over 450 articles. Specialized publications that appear in the results include

Friday, May 21, 2010

Sam Shepard

Roudani, Matthew. Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard. Cambridge University Press, 2002. [Ebrary]

Plays in Ebrary

Friday, January 8, 2010

Legal Literacy Handout

LEGAL LITERACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE
TEN (easy to understand) RULES OF THUMB


by Linda K. Enghagen, J.D., Associate Professor


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Thursday, December 24, 2009

JAVA

Ebooks

Introduction to Programming Using Java. By David J. Eck "...a free, on-line textbook on introductory programming, which uses Java as the language of instruction."

Ebrary - Titles extensively covering Java

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Liberal & Conservative

Definitions

Liberalism. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity, Jr. 2nd ed. Macmillan, 2008. p425-427.

Charvet, John. Liberalism. New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz. Scribner's, 2005. p1262-1269.
Revisionist liberalism believes in "...government intervention in the economy to protect the interests and promote the welfare of workers. Government resources, obtained through general taxation, are used to provide for the basic needs of the population." Further, that "normal adult human beings [only develop] the capacity to exercise their freedom in their own interests [under] suitable economic, educational, and social conditions... If individuals cannot provide these conditions for themselves, then fellow citizens must do so through state action."

Conservatism. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity, Jr. Macmillan, 2008. p83-87.

Aughey, Arthur. Conservatism. New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz. Scribner's, 2005. p452-457.
"Conservatives believe that government can be authoritative only when it is limited, modest, and continuous. If it were possible to identify a distinctive desire uniting all forms of conservatism, it would be the desire to be left alone to enjoy the benefits of a well-ordered society."

Sample Magazine & Journal Titles

Liberal
American Prospect
Mother Jones
New Republic
The Progressive
Utne Reader

Conservative
American Spectator
Commentary
National Review
Policy Review
Washington Monthly

Thursday, January 1, 2009

World Religion

Oxford Reference Online - Religion & Philosophy over a dozen sources including:


Gale Virtual Reference - numerous encyclopedias of history, culture, and the social sciences. Includes the Encyclopedia of Religion [2nd ed., Macmillan, 2005].

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Scientology

Student Selected Topic:
Corruption in the Church of Scientology

Initial search in EBSCO & ProQuest:
Corrupt* AND Scientology

The search did not find many results.

To broaden the search,
try a broader keyword such as cult* : cult* AND Scientology

or search for the keyword "Scientology" only and look through the results to help you choose a different keyword. There are only a little over 40 articles in EBSCOhost dealing with the subject of Scientology that are more than one page long and aren't about Tom Cruise or John Travolta.

CQ Researcher
Clark, C. S. (1993, May 7). Cults in America. CQ Researcher, 3, 385-408.

Library Catalog
It might be a good idea to check out some library books on Scientology too.

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    English as Official Language?

    Student Selected Topic:
    Should English be the official language of the United States?

    Initial sample search in ProQuest:
    ("official language*" or "national language") AND (English) AND (united states)

    To narrow the search,
    try adding another key concept "bilingual* or multilingual" to your search.

    ("official language*" or "national language") AND (English) AND (united states) AND (bilingual* or multilingual*)

    You can try EBSCOhost too.
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    Wednesday, April 23, 2008

    Horse Slaughtering

    Student Selected Topic:
    Horse Slaughtering in the United States

    Initial search in EBSCOhost:
    Horse Slaughtering AND United States

    However, this search will only find those articles that used the exact phrase "Horse Slaughtering". It will not find articles that are relevant but say something like "horses are being slaughtered".

    To broaden the search, try:
    Horse* AND Slaughter* AND United States

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  • Tuesday, January 1, 2008

    Loosely Coupled Systems in Higher Education

    ProQuest - 24 articles

    Articles citing Orton and Weick in ProQuest

    EBSCOhost - 49 articles

    Articles specifically citing Orton and Weick in EBSCOhost