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FYS 199-06 Princesses and Villains, (Ficco) Fall 2020: Home

Library Orientation

Exterior of Clark Family Library

Check out our Library Orientation site to:

Learn about the building layout with floor maps
How to navigate the Library's website
Use your library account to reserve & renew items
Find ways to get help in person and online

Evaluating Sources

Questions to ask while evaluating a source:

What type of source is it (book, journal article, magazine article, website, etc.)?
How old is it?
What do you know about the author?
Does the author document their sources?
How objective is the content?

Search all library resources

EBSCO Discovery Service
This is the search that is also on the library homepage. Use to simultaneously search across all of our library's resources, including content from magazines, academic and peer-reviewed journals, books, ebooks, DVDs, reference sources and more.

Refining a Topic
MIT Libraries has some good tips for narrowing or broadening your search.

Academic Search Ultimate
Offers full-text access to over 12,000 journals, including more than 10,000 peer-reviewed titles. A great database to start your research

Discovery and Google

Google Advanced Search
Narrow down search results for complex searches by using the Advanced Search page.

Citation Resources

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Offers detailed writing and research and grammar help as well as MLA and APA formatting and citation style guides with detailed examples. Writing Lab at Purdue University.
More Citation Help

Director of Library Services

Contact:

Director of Library Services
Clark Family Library

724-503-1001, ext. 3039

Subjects:Accounting, Business, CIS, Economics, History, Mathematics