Misha Quill, Instructor
Ericka A. Raber, Reference and Instruction Librarian
Spring 2008
UI Libraries’ Resources
Use Smart Search or Databases to locate the following databases:
Academic Search Elite (ASE)
ASE is an EBSCOhost database of magazine, journal and newspaper articles.
Provides access to a wide range of news sources. News wires, television and radio transcripts are also available. Full-text available in html (text-only).
Access World News
Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers. Includes: New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and Des Moines Register.
InfoHawk library catalog
Use the catalog to find books and videos related to your topic.
TIP: Look at the full record of an item that interests you for subject headings that link to other like items.
Sample subject headings:
United States. Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX
Birth control -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Sample Reference Books
(To locate reference books, use Advanced Search in the InfoHawk catalog. Limit your search using the Location drop-down menu to Main Reference.)
Historical dictionary of school segregation and desegregation : the American experience / Jeffrey A. Raffel. -- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Main Reference Collection LC212.52 .R34 1998
Same-sex marriage / Allene Phy-Olsen. -- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Main Reference Collection HQ1033 .P47 2006
Encyclopedia of birth control / Marian Rengel. --Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 2000.
Main Reference Collection HQ766 .R442 2000
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