Additional Resources and Sources Used

Additional Resources

Sources Used






Additional Resources

If you want to learn more about databases, how they are organized, and how to use them, check out the following tutorial:
University of Illinois' Article Database Tutorial

Here is a link to journals related to Library and Information Science. Refereed journals are indicated by a yellow star:
Library and Information Science Journals

To see a list of databases that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign offers, go to the following site:
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Datatases

Finding information on the Internet- A tutorial:
Berkeley Internet Tutorial

Advice on how to evaluate different types of periodicals (magazines, newspapers, general interest, and academic)
Evaluating Periodicals

For a complete list of electronic periodicals available at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, go to the following site:
Electronic Journals

Sources Used

Bird, James E. "Teaching from the journal: an instructional method", Research Strategies, Vol 15 (4), 1997, 293-300.

Bopp, Richard E., and Linda C. Smith, eds. Reference and Information Services: an Introduction. 2nd Ed. Englewood, CA : Libraries Unlimited, 1995.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th Ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999.

Holmes,Colette, Roxanne Mountford, and Elizabeth Weise. "Something old, something new: using professional journals to teach language and culture", Research Strategies, Vol 11 (3), 180-184.

Katzer, Jeffery, Kenneth H. Cook, and Wayne W. Crouch. Evaluating Information: A Guide for Users of Social Science Research. 4th Ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Marshall, Gordon, ed. A Dictionary of Sociology. 2nd Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.Neuman, Lawrence. Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. 3rd Ed. Needham Heights, MA : Allyn and Bacon, 1997.

Powell, Ronald R. Basic Research Methods for Librarians. 2nd Ed. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1991.

Robinson, David and Val Reed, eds. The A-Z of Social Research Jargon Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998.

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