Getting Help
Hi, I'm
Krista Knapp,
your friendly reference/instructional librarian, and I'm here
to help you!
Visit my website for more information about me:
http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~kmknapp
When I'm not teaching classes or rushing off to meetings, you
can find me in my office in Blackwell Library 129 or at the
research services desk.
My
hours on the desk are as follows:
Feel free to chat with me on Facebook if you have a quick
question as well. You can also get help 24
hours a day, 7 days a week through the Maryland AskUsNow
reference service. Find out more about that
here.
If
you're new to the library website, here's a
quick tutorial to show you how to get around!
Finding Articles
Ask yourself if you need scholarly sources or popular sources
for your assignment. Many times, your professor will insist on
scholarly sources. What does that mean? Find out using this
handy-dandy
chart.
We have several databases you can use to search for journal,
magazine, or newspaper articles. Some of them only give a
citation to the article, and some have the full-text. Here is a
list of databases you might want to try. NOTE: If you
are off campus, you will need to log in with the barcode from
the BACK of your Gull Card to access the databases.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY & NEWSPAPERS:
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Academic Search Premier
- a multidisciplinary database from EBSCO with a mix of
scholarly and popular resources, a lot of full-text and Find
It links when there is no full-text available
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JSTOR
- scholarly
full-text resources; the newest documents are 3-5 years old.
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Lexis-Nexis Academic
- this database contains full-text world news, legal and
business information.
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National Newspapers
- a collection of full-text major newspapers including
The New York Times and
Washington Post.
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC:
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Social Work Abstracts
- our main database for Social
Work.
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ERIC - "Education Resources
Information Center," a database with full text education
articles and ERIC documents as well as Find It links to
non-full text resources.
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PsycINFO - the gold standard database
for psychology and related fields.
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Social Sciences Abstracts - articles
and citations for interdisciplinary fields such as
addiction studies, anthropology, corrections, economics,
gender studies, gerontology, minority studies, political
sciences, psychology, sociology, and more
Find It Button
WHAT DOES THAT CUTE LITTLE FIND IT BUTTON DO, ANYWAY?
It's a bit like magic,
really. The Find It button does three things:
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Looks in all of our
databases to see if the document you want is available
full-text in another of our databases. If so, it links you
to it!
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Links you to the library
catalog when we have the item you want in print or
microform.
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Links you to ILLiad
(interlibrary loan) so you can borrow the item from another
library if we don't have access electronically or in print.
Watch this
video tutorial for more information about ILL.
The Find It button is YOUR
FRIEND!!! See it in action in this
tutorial!
You can also use the
Citation Linker, another fabulously cool tool. It is
useful when you are reading an article and it cites another
article that looks like it would be super useful for your
research. You plug in the citation information for that
article and can find out how to access it, whether it be
electronically, physically in the library, or through
Interlibrary Loan. It works the same way as Find It, but you
don't have to be in a database.
Learn more about the
Citation Linker!
Everybody's Favorite: Statistics!
You can also try your hand at finding
datasets by Googling "public use" AND dataset AND [your topic].
Statistics can be tricky, so be sure and let me know if you're
having problems finding what you want!
Citing your work
Plagriarism is not cool. Of course you want to
make sure you give proper credit to any source that you use to
write your papers, whether you directly quote or paraphrase.
This guide helps students understand what plagiarism is and
how to avoid it.
Use
this guide to help you cite your work, and remember
librarians are good at answering citation questions as well!
My favorite citation guide is
the OWL at Purdue
(I recommend it even though I am an IU alum, Purdue's rival
school...that tells you it's a great resource!)
Helpful Websites!
SWAN (Social Work Access Network)
http://cosw.sc.edu/swan/
Internet Subject Guide for Social Work
(Hunter College, CUNY)
http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/ssw/isg.html
Social Work & Social Services Web Sites
(George Warren Brown School of
Social Work, Washington University,
St. Louis)
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/Resources/Pages/socialservicesresourcesintro.aspx
Literature Reviews
(University of North Carolina)
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature_review.html
Social Work Literature Reviews
(From the OWL at Purdue)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/666/1
