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| DATA
. . . organized, is INFORMATION . . .made meaningful, is KNOWLEDGE . . .connected to other knowledge, is INTELLIGENCE . . .granted experience, is WISDOM ...which must lead to . . .ACTION.* |
| University of Iowa Libraries | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/user-ed/infolit/begin.html |
| Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy | http://www.lib.usf.edu/ref/doril/ |
| Information Literacy Competency Standards (ACRL) | http://www.ala.org |
| FIU Information Literacy Initiative | http://www.fiu.edu/~library/ili/ilibroc.html |
| Institute for Information Literacy-Best Practices (ACRL) | http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm |
| TWIST: Teaching with Innovation Style & Technology | http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/index.html |
| University of Maryland Library |
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| California State University
(Chico) |
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instructors/ilassignment.htm |
| University of Puget Sound |
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| CSU's Information Competency
Initiative |
http://www.calstate.edu/LS/infocomp.shtml |
| The Robinson Memorial Library
subscribes to several periodical databases, plus has access to many
others through INSPIRE.
The INSPIRE databases are made
available through the State of Indiana and can be accessed from off
campus from anywhere in Indiana, www.inspire-indiana.net. To access all database networks available
at SJC, both INSPIRE and subscription, please go to the library’s
database web page at www.saintjoe.edu/library/online.htm.
From there you can link to any of the databases you see listed
below. The following list indicates if a database
is available for searching from on-campus only. |
| Academic Search Elite | Multidisciplinary database indexing both popular and peer-reviewed sources, many of which are full text. |
| ATLA | ATLA Religion Database covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. With coverage dating as far back as 1949, this database contains over one million bibliographic records. |
| ATLAS | ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the full text version of the ATLA Religion Database (ATLA). Coverage of this database dates back to 1949 for some sources. Subscription database available for searching on the SJC campus only. |
| Academic
Universe (Lexis-Nexis) |
This Lexis-Nexis database provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and general reference full text information. Subscription database available for searching on the SJC campus only. |
| Biography Resource Center | Provides brief biographical information culled from both periodical and reference sources, on individuals in all walks of life.Provides brief biographical information culled from both periodical and reference sources, on individuals in all walks of life. |
| Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic | All titles included in this database are indexed in MEDLINE. |
| Business Source Premier | Covers all aspects of business, indexing both popular and scholarly business periodicals, many of which are full text. |
| Catholic Periodical
Literature Index |
Indexes most major Catholic journals and newspapers. You must be logged on to the campus network to access. Once logged on, go to Windows Explorer (Click Start →All Programs→Accessories→Windows Explorer). From the Address line, select the I (common) drive. Scroll down and click on the CPLI icon (not the folder marked CPLI.CD). Subscription database available for searching on the SJC campus only. |
| Clinical Pharmacology | Indexes monographs on a variety of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. |
| Corporate ResourceNet | Full text coverage of over 1,300 business magazines and journals. |
| Datamonitor Company Profiles | Accessible through the EBSCOhost interface by selecting the Business Source Premier database, then clicking on the Company Profiles button at the top of the page. |
| EBSCO Animals | Describes nature and habitat of familiar animal species. |
| ERIC | Database covering all aspects of education, indexing journals and other types of literature. |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia | General encyclopedia containing over 25,000 entries. |
| GPO Access | Public
domain resource from the U.S. government that allows you to access a
variety of government information sources. Click on the A-Z
resources list in the lefthand column to get an alphabetical list of
available resources. The Catalog of U.S. Government Publication is
a particularly useful index. |
| Health Business FullTEXT | Covers health care administration and related subjects. |
| Health Source: Consumer Edition | Updated daily, this database provides full text searching of almost 300 journals in the consumer health field. |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | Indexes about 850 scholarly medical
journals, 550 of which are full text. |
| Informe! | Indexes Spanish-language magazines and pamphlets, including full text of articles as well as images. Both Spanish and English search interfaces available. |
| Knight-Ridder Collection | 90-day archive of approximately 100 newspapers from the Knight Ridder wire service. |
| Lit Finder | Includes Essay Finder, Poem Finder, and Story Finder. |
| MAS Ultra | Indexes a variety of publications helpful for high school level research. |
| MasterFILE Premier | Multidisciplinary database covering general periodicals and reference sources, along with an image collection containing photos, maps and flags. |
| MEDLINE | Covers all aspects of medicine from more than 4,600 journals. |
| Mergent's | This service offers business information on "over 10,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies....Formerly known as Moody's Financial Information Services. Subscription database available for searching on the SJC campus only. |
| Middle Search Plus |
Indexes magazines appropriate for research at the middle school level. |
| Military & Government Collection | Provides access to journals about, or of interest to those in, government or the military. |
| MLA Bibliography | MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Subscription database available for searching on the SJC campus only. |
| New
York Times |
Access
to the New York Times current and historical database (1851-present)
from Proquest. |
| Newsbank | This is "a comprehensive, full text news resource consisting of more than 500 regional, national, and international newspapers and newswire sources. It provides easy access to social issues, economics, environment, government, health and science and sports." This source covers publications from 1991 to the present. Subscription database available for searching on the SJC campus only. |
| Newspaper Source | Provides full text access to 25 national and international newspaper with full text coverage of selected regional papers. |
| Primary Search | Provides full text articles from over 76 children’s magazines appropriate for elementary schools. |
| Professional Development Collection | Indexes over 750 full text journals for professional educators. |
| PsycINFO | PsycINFO contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages. Subscription database available for searching on the SJC campus only. |
| PsycArticles | This database provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1988 to the present. It includes more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO. |
| TOPICsearch | Indexes current events articles, many full text. |
| Wall
Street Journal |
Access
to Wall Street Journal current and historical database (1889-present)
from Proquest. |
| What Tree Is It? | Contains information about and photos of midwest trees, allowing you to identify them by leaf, fruit, and tree name. |
| WorldCat | OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Select OCLC FirstSearch then go to drop down menu for databases and select WorldCat. (To find web sites on this database, enter your search terms then use the "NOT" operator and enter the term netlibrary.) |
| Most of us feel that
we are Internet savvy enough to know if the information we are getting
is bogus or not. But, would you be willing to stake your career,
academic or otherwise, on that assumption? There are somebasic questions
that should become second nature and will help you identify reliable
sources very quickly.
What's in the name?  on evaluating web
resources. |
OPAC
(Online Public Access Catalog)
| Beginning June 18, the Robinson
Memorial Library will be utilizing a new online library system for its
Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). The Library belongs to the
Private Academic Library Network of Indiiana (PALNI) and now joins the
shared database system. A total of twenty-two Indiana academic
institutions are sharing the new EX LIBRIS system.
This new system offers many features to assist faculty and students with
research. Some of these features will not be available in June but
are expected to be implemented during the upcoming academic year.
SJC is among the first four institutions to implement this system.
OPAC special
features include: |
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Sample Assignments
| Tim McFarland's assignment | http://www.saintjoe.edu/~timm/junk |
| SFX CITATION
LINKER This is a tool for locating periodical articles or full text journals in a number of databases at the same time. The Saint Joseph's College's version of this product permits simultaneous searching in the following databases. EBSCO DATABASES: ACADEMIC SEARCH
ELITE OTHER
DATABASES: LEXIS
NEXIS ACADEMIC UNIV |