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- "Orientation to social science research and data gathering at the
UMD Library."
Class will be in Library 115, one of the Library Teaching Labs.
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of the LIBRARY FIRST FLOOR]
Kathryn Fuller,
or another professional library staff member, will discuss UMD
library's services and resources. She has prepared and will
review the following information:
- Go to the UMD Library's Electronic
Resources WebPage and set your browser's bookmark to the Electronic
Resources page
- "Looking for books, reference works,
government documents, videos, etc."
- Library
Catalogue (UMD)
- Other
Library Catalogues
- Electronic
Resources
- MINITEX
Interlibrary Loan Service
- WorldCat
- PALS
(MnSCU)
- MNCAT
(U of M Twin Cities)
- MnLINKs
- "Looking for periodical articles"
- Start with general subject electronic indexes
- Expanded
Academic Index (InfoTrac)
- keyword, subject searching
- locate scholarly publications by checking "refereed"
- WilsonWeb
(Wilson Select)
- locate scholarly publications by checking "peer
review"
- EBSCO Academic Elite [coming soon]
- Full-text databases -- general subjects
- Project Muse -- select full-text
databases in humanities and social science
- Science
Direct (Elsevier ) -- small number of social
sciences periodicals within a large database of full-text
science journals
- JSTOR
-- several social sciences periodicals but all more
than five years old
- Next go to subject-special indexes
- Indexes
and Databases
- "Looking for news / current information"
- LEXIS-NEXIS
(includes interview transcripts)
- News
Sources
- Minnesota
Newspapers
- U.S.
Newspapers
- International
Newspapers
- Indexes
- Radio
/ TV / Internet
- "Looking for statistics"
- Census
2000
- American FactFinder
- Other
products on EDD
- Statistical Universe -- an index to government, internationsl,
and some private sector statistical publications; some full
text
- Statistical Resources Page
- "Looking for government information"
- Government
Documents Resources
- Google Uncle
Sam
- "Looking for web resources"
- UMD
Search Engine Page -- for best results use "advanced"
feature
- Google --
for government information try Google (Uncle Sam)
- Excite
(example)
- Metacrawler
(example)
- FirstGov
- Electronic
Reference Collection
- eBooks
- Special
Collections Information
- Indexes / Databases / Pathfinders for Selected
Subjects
- Indexes
and Databases
- Subject
Bibliographies and Pathfinders
You should also know how to search for, find, and access other
materials from sources such as Justice Information Center, , ,
PsychLit (Psychology Abstracts), Social Work
Abstracts, Web of Science (citation indices), Books
in Print, Encyclopedia Britanica, Government Info.
Resources, indexes such as the Social Science Index
and the Biography Index, and abstracts such as Psychological
Abstracts, the microform (microfiche/microfilm) resources,
the periodical holdings list, and resources such as Annual
Review of Anthropology, the Social Sciences Citation Index,
and handbooks such as the Handbook of Middle American Indians.
- Continue thinking about your interview for Project #2,
and about setting up an appointment withthe person(s) you want to
interview. . Project #2 requires
that you prepare for, conduct, and report on an interview with a social
science professional practicing in your field. (Do more
detailed planning for that project.) If you haven't yet
done so:
- Make a list of 3-5 kinds of positions held by people in your field
- Decide what you want to know about those positions
- Make a list of people who might be interviewed. Interview a professional
who works off campus.
- Make arrangements to interview a person in your field. Select
an interviewee from off campus. Contact potential interviewees and
explain the purpose of the interview. Arrange for an interview time
of about an hour. Arrange place, date, and time of interview. If possible,
arrange to conduct the interview between class Days 07 and 08. Schedule
that NOW!
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Conduct your interview sometime after the first
half of Week 04
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