When time is a factor, your campus library has resources that can be accessed immediately – locally held books and ebooks and full text articles in databases. Most databases offer a check box or something similar to refine searching to immediately available assets. Often, this will be near the search box, or along one side of the screen, in a section with a heading like ‘limit your results’. Databases like the EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest, or JSTOR, offer copious full text, whereas sources like Web of Knowledge or Science Citation Index, offer only citations or abstracts.
If there are specific articles we don’t have for immediate access, interlibrary loan for them is available. Since articles can be sent electronically, we receive copies of about 80% of requested articles within a day or two of the submission.
If you have a need for primary resources, a lot of primary source databases are full text. These include African-American History Online, Oral History Online, North American Immigrant Letters & Diaries, and Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. You might also want to use multimedia – academic-oriented videos are available in several databases. AVON is a multidisciplinary database with thousands of titles of streaming (and subtitled) videos.
For editing help with a final paper, our colleagues in the IU East Writing Center are available to proofread and critique it. You can submit a paper to them 24/7 at iue.upswing.io – log in with your IU East username and passphrase. The consultants may need between 12-24 hours to reply, and you can submit up to 10 pages per day for review. You can also contact them directly: (765) 973-8506 or iuowrite@iu.edu.
The library also has guidebooks that can help with writing skills, such as Research Papers: 101 Ways to Make Your Work Stand Out by Jessica Piper or The Quick Fix Guide to Academic Writing: How to Avoid Big Mistakes and Small Errors by Phillip Shon.
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