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Native American Heritage Month

e-resources, holidays November 22, 2010 Caitlin Tracey-Miller ctraceym 0 Comments

Richmond, Indiana was founded in 1818, but the history of people in this area goes back thousands of years before that. Native American tribes, including the Miami, Potawatomi, Delaware, and Shawnee, thrived in Indiana. November is Native American Heritage Month, and you can learn more about the diverse and complex history of Native Americans at the IU East Campus Library. One excellent database that features resources about the Native American Experience is American Indian History Online. http://www.fofweb.com/NuHistory/default.asp?ItemID=WE43&NewItemID=True This database allows you to choose search terms based on what you wish to study. You can search by region, tribe, person, event, or topic. There are extensive timelines, going as far back as the first humans on the North American continent, as … Continued

CredoReference

e-resources, reference databases November 15, 2010 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

You may be familiar with some of our bigger and better known databases – EBSCO, JSTOR, ProQuest – but we have some real treasures among the lesser-known ones, too. CredoReference is one of them. CredoReference is like a reference shelf full of hundreds of dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotation guides, and biographies all in one place. Some are specialized, focusing on subjects like business or medicine. Some are general works. But the strength of this database is its interconnectedness. And while you have the standard encyclopedia entries, you also have access to multimedia content including images, maps, videos, music files, tables, and statistics – all linked together. Have you ever used the Encyclopaedia Britannica? While reading an article about Mozart, have you … Continued

The Un-Wikipedia

e-resources, reference databases October 11, 2010 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

Have you ever been researching a topic for class and really needed an encyclopedia? We’ve all been there, and often we click to Wikipedia. That sometimes is okay for getting you familiar with a topic, but for academic purposes, that source just isn’t reliable enough….even according to that online encyclopedia’s founder! (http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Wikipedia-Founder-Discourages/2305) Fortunately, the IU East Campus Library subscribes to Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. This is a thorough and reliable encyclopedia assembled, like the old paper version, by the best minds in their fields. Like many of the resources IU East subscribes to, it has been rigorously peer-reviewed and verified for accuracy. Wikipedia is produced by its users – some are quite smart, others not so much. The Encyclopaedia Britannica counts some … Continued

The Right Cite

e-resources, reference databases October 4, 2010 Matt Dilworth, Research mdilwort

So, it’s a third of the way into the semester, and you have some papers coming due. Research papers. And you need to cite your sources. Well, there are many helpful aids to doing that. We have the style manuals at the library’s front desk that you can use. And we, and our colleagues in the Writing Lab, are glad to help you figure them out. There’s the Online Writing Lab at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/, which is great for getting you through MLA or APA style. And there’s RefWorks, a program we subscribe to that will help you generate whole reference lists. But for a lot of things, references are even simpler than all that! For many of our databases, citations can … Continued

Let a Web 2.0 Tool increase your success in searching!

e-resources, Website June 28, 2010 Computers, Sue McFadden smcfadde 0 Comments

Have you heard of the Campus Library Toolbar? This exciting tool is incredible. Want to go to Oncourse? You’re there! Need access to OneStart? Click and select. Does the schedule of classes get lost in the shuffle? Just point and click! Include the value-added links to Campus Library resources and services and you have a Web 2.0 Tool designed to enhance your IU East experience. It is easy to use – no addresses to remember or bookmarks to find. This toolbar installs in Firefox or Internet Explorer web browsers and lets you find IU East related resources. Go quickly to Oncourse, OneStart, or the IU Knowledge Base. Obtain quick access to library articles, resources, and information. Enter your search … Continued