T101: Academic Literacy Development

Choose Your Words (Carefully!)

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• Wikipedia gives a general overview of many topics.  While you should not use it as a direct source for your work, it does proved a helpful starting point.
• See this page for dictionaries to find synonyms or other words for your search.

 

Build Your Search

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See this page for an exercise to transform your words into something you can put in a database or a library catalog.

 

 

Finding Articles

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• Academic Search (EBSCO) provides articles on many topics. Remember that you can select other databases from here and search more than one at the same time.
• ERIC (EBSCO) is a database for education resources.

 

Finding Books

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IUCAT is the online library catalog for Indiana University.

 

 

Finding Business Information

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ABI/INFORM Complete has business and management information.

 

 

Finding Environmental Information

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• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is an authoritative reference source with articles on the life sciences.
• GreenFILE covers all aspects of human impact on the environment.
• GREENR: Global reference on the environment, energy, and natural resources offers articles on the development of green technology and sustainability
• Proquest Environmental Science Collection contains abstracts from thousands of scientific journals.

 

Finding Newspapers

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• LexisNexis Academic has both archived and current news.
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers gives you access to newspapers dating back to the 1800s.

 

Citation

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Use this page for citation help.

 

 

Questions?

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• Interactive Tutorials on library resources and research skills
• Ask a Librarian