Course Research Guide for INTL 194: Globalization and Cultural Identities

• Research & Computing Help
  
  
• Reference Resources
  
  
• Finding Books: Catalogs
  
  
• Finding Articles & More : Indexes

• Web Research
  
  
• Evaluating Research Materials
  
  
• Borrowing Materials & Interlibrary Loan
  
  
• Citing Your Resources

Research Help

• What? Librarians will help with research questions related to choosing a research topic or question, finding background information, choosing and searching within Library catalogs and subscription resources, finding books and articles at Macalester, requesting materials from other libraries, finding statistics, evaluating research resources, etc.
  
  
• When? Monday-Thursday 8am-9pm, Friday 8am-4:30pm, Saturday 1pm-5pm, Sunday 1pm-9pm. Librarians can also help through email, consultation sessions, and chat. See More Help in this section for additional information about these types of help.
  
  
• Where? The Reference Desk is located just inside the main doors of the Library and to your right.
  
  
• More Help
  
  
  • Sign Up for a Reference Consultation Session with a Librarian using the Library's Ask Us service (Limited Hours).
    
    
  • Call the Reference Desk at x6618 [Off Campus (651) 696-6618].
    
    
  • Send an Email Reference Question using the Library's Ask Us service.
    
    
  • Chat with a Librarian using the Library's Ask Us service (Limited Hours).
    
    
  • Contact your Instruction Session Librarian.

Computing Help

• What? CIT (Computing and Information Technology) staff members and student employees will help you with questions related to computer hardware and software, the network, email, printing, passwords and online accounts, etc.
  
  
• When? Monday-Thursday 8am-10pm, Friday 8am-4pm, Sunday 4pm-10pm.
  
  
• Where? The Computing Help Desk office is located in the Humanities Building, Room 310.
  
  
• More Help
  
  
  • Find more information and help on the Computing Help Desk Web page.
    
    
  • Call the CIT (Computing & Information Technology) Computing Help Desk at x6525 [Off Campus (651) 696-6525] to speak directly to a consultant or leave a message.
    
    
  • Email the Computing Help Desk to report a problem or ask a question.
    
    
  • Use CIT Documentation, instructional handouts explaining systems and software, for help with computer, application, program, and network questions.

• What? Reference materials include resources like dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, almanacs, handbooks, statistical materials, etc.
  
  
• When? Use resources in the Reference Collection to find background information on your topic area when you start your research projects.
  
  
• Where? Reference Collection Library Map. Use the CLICnet Catalog to search for resources in the Reference Collection. Print books are shelved under Library of Congress Call Numbers, including both letters and numbers, based on their subject matter.
  
  
  
  • Electronic Reference Resources - Collection of subscription reference packages

Selected Reference Resources for this Course

General Reference Sources

Oxford Reference Online

Coverage: Current | Search Help | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences)
Resource Type: Electronic Reference Resource (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: Oxford University Press
Description: Resource of reference materials including about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Provides database-wide searching, subject searching across sources, and individual title searching.

Xreferplus

Coverage: Current | Search Help | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences)
Resource Type: Electronic Reference Resource (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: Xrefer
Description: Resource of reference materials providing access to about 150 online reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations from a variety of publishers. Covers both general reference and subject-specific reference titles for a variety of disciplines. Allows cross-referencing across different books and provides a unique, graphics-based Research Mapper for topic exploration.

Discipline Specific Reference Sources

Bowker's news media directory

Location: MAC Reference PN4877 .B68 2004
New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker, c2003-

Dictionary of communication and media studies

Location: MAC Reference P87.5 .W38 1997
James Watson, Anne Hill. London ; New York : Arnold ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Editor & publisher international year book

Location: MAC Reference PN4700 .E4 2002
New York : Editor & Publisher Co., c1959-

Encyclopedia of communication and information

Location: MAC Reference P87.5 .E53 2002
Edited by Jorge Reina Schement. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2002. 3 vols.

Encyclopedia of new media : an essential reference to communication and technology

Location: MAC Reference QA76.575 .E5368 2003
Steve Jones, editor. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2003.

Focal illustrated dictionary of telecommunications (in Xreferplus)

Location: MAC Online Reference Resource
Xerxes Mazda and Fraidoon Mazda. Burlington, Mass. : Focal Press, 1999.

Handbook of the media in Asia

Location: MAC Reference P92 .A7 H36 2000
Edited by Shelton A. Gunaratne. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2000.

History of the mass media in the United States : an encyclopedia

Location: MAC Reference P92.U5 H55 1998
Edited by Margaret A. Blanchard ; commissioning editor Carol J. Burwash. Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c1998.

Mass media : a chronological encyclopedia of television, radio, motion pictures, magazines, newspapers, and books in the United States

Location: MAC Reference P92.U5 H77 1987
Robert V. Hudson. New York : Garland Pub., 1987.

World press encyclopedia : a survey of press systems worldwide

Location: MAC Reference PN4728 .Q53 2003
Amanda C. Quick, project editor. Detroit : Gale, c2003.

• What? A catalog is a record of items and materials owned, or subscribed to, by a particular library or group of libraries. Here at Macalester our online catalog is called CLICnet.
  
  
• When? Catalogs are the primary research tool to use when you need to find books. A catalog will allow you to search by the title or author of an item and also provide you with different ways to find research materials by topic.
  
  
• Where? Print books are shelved under Library of Congress Call Numbers, including both letters and numbers, based on their subject matter. See the Library's Locating Books at Macalester Web page for more information.
  
  
  
  • CLICnet - Books and other materials owned by Macalester's Library
    
    
  • MNCAT - Books and other materials owned by the University of Minnesota

  
  
  What if I want a book that is not available at Macalester?

  If the book is available at another school in the CLICnet Catalog: Use the red "Request" button that appears in the catalog near the top of the page in the record for the item.

  If the book is NOT available in the CLICnet Catalog: Submit an Interlibrary Loan request. Please see the Library's Interlibrary Loan - Borrowing Policy Web page for more information.

• What? Indexes are subscription databases, or a set of print volumes, that provide information about research materials by subject. Many indexes are multidisciplinary in nature, containing research information covering a variety of disciplines. The Library pays for Macalester community members to have access to these packages.
  
  
• When? Use indexes when you need to find information about articles in journals, magazines, newspapers, and reference sources for you research projects. Many of these resources also include information about other research materials such as books, book chapters, government publications, working papers, conference proceedings, Web sites, statistical resources, etc.
  
  
• Where? The fulltext of an article is sometimes available in a particular online index or we may subscribe to the print version of a journal you need. Use the Journal Finder Catalog to determine if the Library subscribes to a particular journal or other periodical either online or in print in the Library.
  
  
  
  • Indexes & Electronic Collections by Title - Subscription databases and other electronic collections available at Macalester.

  
  
  What if I want an article that is not available in an online or print journal at Macalester?

  If the article is not available in print or online journal at Macalester: Submit an Interlibrary Loan request. Please see the Library's Interlibrary Loan - Borrowing Policy Web page for more information.

Selected Indexes & Electronic Collections for this Course

General Multidisciplinary Indexes

Academic Search Premier

Coverage: 1975 - | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences)
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor Information: EBSCOhost, EBSCO Publishing
Description: Provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.

Alternative Press Index (AltPressIndex)

Coverage: 1991 - | Search Help

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences)
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor Information: Alternative Press Center, OCLC FirstSearch
Description: International and interdisciplinary database that indexes periodicals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Includes citation information for nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Abstracts are also provided for selected research journals.

Alternative Press Index Archive (AltPressIndexArchive)

Coverage: 1969 - 1990 | Search Help

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences)
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor Information: Alternative Press Center, OCLC FirstSearch
Description: International and interdisciplinary database that indexes periodicals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Includes citation information for nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Abstracts are also provided for selected research journals.

JSTOR

Coverage: Date Varies | Search Help | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences)
Resource Type: Ejournal Collection (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: JSTOR
Description: Large collection of core scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

Left Index

Coverage: 1982 -

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences)
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: NISC BiblioLine
Description: Provides access to the diversity of literature on the left, with a primary emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. A secondary emphasis is on significant but little known sources of news and ideas. Topics covered include the labor movement, ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social & cultural theory, sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.

LexisNexis Academic

Coverage: Date Varies | Search Help | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences)
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: LexisNexis
Description: Fulltext articles from newspapers, trade magazines, legal resources, medical resources, and several reference sources.

PAIS International (PAIS/Public Affairs Information Service International)

Coverage: 1972 - | Search Help

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences)
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: OCLC Public Affairs Information Service, Inc., OCLC FirstSearch
Description: Index to journals, books, government and international publications covering global public policy and social issues.

Project MUSE

Coverage: Date Varies | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences)
Resource Type: Ejournal Collection (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: Johns Hopkins University Press, Project MUSE
Description: Searchable collection of fulltext journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

Coverage: 1985 - | Search Help | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: Multidisciplinary (Social Sciences)
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: Thomson ISI, Web of Knowledge
Description: Multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. A feature of this index is the inclusion of all cited references.

Discipline Specific Indexes

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

Coverage: 1991 - | Search Help

Discipline/Topic Areas: International Studies, Political Science
Resource Type: Ejournal & Etext Collection (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: Columbia University Press
Description: Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings and working papers in the field of public policy and international affairs.

CommSearch CD-ROM Reserve Desk P87 .C667 (In Library Use Only)

Coverage: 1978 -

Discipline/Topic Areas: Communication & Media Studies
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: Speech Communication Association
Description: Indexes 26 journals in Communication Studies from 1991-1996 and abstracts from 1978-1996. Six journals are provided in fulltext for 1991-1997.

Communication Abstracts

Coverage: 1977 - | Search Help | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: Communication & Media Studies
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: SAGE Publications, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
Description: Covers communication-related publications on a world-wide scale and includes articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources. Also covers the subject areas of film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions.

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association International Bibliography)

Coverage: 1963 - | Search Help | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: African Studies, American Studies, Asian Studies, English, French, German Studies, Humanties & Cultural Studies, Japanese, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Russian, Spanish & Portuguese, Theater & Dance
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: Modern Language Association, Thomson Gale/InfoTrac
Description: Index covering literature from all over the world including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing.

Sociological Abstracts

Coverage: 1963 - | Search Help | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: Humanities & Cultural Studies, Sociology
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: Sociological Abstracts, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
Description: Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Coverage: 1975 - | Search Help | Title List

Discipline/Topic Areas: International Studies, Political Science
Resource Type: Electronic Index (Subscription)
Publisher/Vendor: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
Description: Covers over 1000 journals that cover political science related fields including law, public administration/policy, and international relations.

• What? The Internet is used to access information stored in files or documents on another computer. When you use the Internet, you retrieve documents, view images, programs, animation, and video, listen to sound files, speak and hear voice, via the World Wide Web. (From the UC Berkeley Library Web site)
  
  
• When? Use the Web to start your research. Like Reference Collection resources, Websites can help with finding background information for your research project.
  
  
• Where? Use a Web browser like Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape, Avant, or Opera to access information via the Internet. No single search engine can claim to even come close to searching the entire Web. For best results, use multiple search engines.
  
  
  
  • Google - A great search engine to start with when surfing and searching on the Web.
    
    
  • Search Engine Watch - Access additional search engines. Also find information and reviews about these search engines.

Evaluating research materials involves analyzing a resource to determine its usefulness and appropriateness with respect to your research project. Evaluation is important during all phases of a research project. You must select the best and most appropriate resources for your research.

Criteria to Consider When Evaluating Research Materials:

• What? Interlibary Loan, or ILL, is a DeWitt Wallace Library service that allows current Macalester students, staff, and faculty to request materials not available at Macalester.
  
  
• When? If Macalester does not own, or subscribe to, the research material you need, you can ask the Library to try and borrow the item from another Library in the area.
  
  
• Where? The Library uses a system called ILLiad that allows you to place requests for materials and track the status of these requested materials.
  
  
  
  • ILLiad Login - Use to access an existing account in the ILLiad system.
    
    
  • Interlibrary Loan - Borrowing Policy - For more information about Interlibrary Loan and ILLiad.

• What? Giving credit to the ideas of other scholars when you use their work or research in developing your own project.
  
  
• When? You must cite a resource whenever you quote, paraphrase, summarize, or otherwise refer to the work of another.
  
  
• Where? Citing a source usually includes parenthetical documentation or use of a footnote within the text of your project as well as creating a works cited reference list at the end of your project using a specific citation style. See the Library's Citing Resources Guide Web page for more information.
  
  
  
  • RefWorks - Service that allows you to download, organize, annotate, and search citations you find during your research as well as create in-text citations and works cited bibliographies for your papers.
    
    

Common Citation Style Manuals

Chicago Manual of Style
Chicago : The Press, 1982-
MAC Ref Z253 .U69 2003

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Joseph Gibaldi. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
MAC Ref LB2369 .G53 2003

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2001.
MAC Ref BF76.7 .P83 2001