WRT 105 - Fall 2007
Hypervisibility - Hurricane Katrina
Reference Contacts:
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Books: SUMMIT Library Catalog
Use the SUMMIT Library Catalog to find books (e.g. dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.) or other items.
For some topics, a keyword search using a phrase (enclosed in quotations marks) can locate materials effectively.
Keyword: "Hurricane Katrina"
You can search a variety of ways but the Subject Heading search will find the most relevant sources for your topics.
Subject Heading: Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Subject Heading: Disaster relief--Gulf States
Circulation Policies
The Library's Circulation Policies describes what the borrowing privileges are for the various categories of students, staff, and faculty.
Journal Articles: Library Databases
These are electronic resources that you can use to find full text, abstract, or citation information from a variety of sources, such as scholarly journals, popular magazines, trade journals, or newspaper articles. Databases listed on the Research Starting Points page are interdisciplinary, while others are very subject specific. Your topic may span several different subjects, depending on the aspect you are trying to research -- e.g., social, political, environmental, etc.
NOTE: To access any of the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted for a user name and password. Your user name is your ten digit ID number (make sure that you use all ten digits, no hyphens, or spaces), and your password is your last name or family name in lower case letters.
General and Interdisciplinary
- Proquest Research Library
- Reference database containing abstracts, indexing, and full text articles from popular magazines, business periodicals, and academic publications, plus current coverage of articles from major newspapers. It covers a wide range of topics including the arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences and women's interests.
- Alt-Press Watch
- Full-text database of selected newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press. Complements Proquest Research Library for a view of topics that are out of the mainstream.
- Wilson Full Text (OmniFile)
- Full text, Indexed and abstracted records from H.W. Wilson Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, and Wilson Full Text. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
News Photographs
- AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
- Photographs and audio clips from the Associated Press News Services and their archive. Coverage is from the 1850s to the present, although there are only a few hundred photos dating before 1900.
Social and Political
- Sociological Abstracts
- Bibliographic coverage of sociology, social work, aging, gerontology, child and family studies, marriage and family therapy and other social sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Covers 1963 to the present; updated six times per year.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. The serials list of the new database is actively under construction, with a focus on expanding international coverage. As of February 2003 approximately 1,304 titles are being monitored for coverage
- CQ Weekly
- A week by week non-partisan report on activity within the United States Congress. Discusses issues about to be addressed by Congress, summaries of the previous week's legislative events, status of bills pending before the House and Senate, committee and floor activity, and outcomes of roll call votes. Searchable by date, topic, latest votes. Covers 1983- present.
- CQ Researcher
- Consists of reports on public policy issues. Over 44 reports are released each year, providing in-depth coverage of social and political issues with reports on topics in environment, health and nutrition, education, international affairs, economics, and science and technology. Each report focuses on a single topic and features concise background discussion and chronologies, overviews of the current situation, pro and con commentary, as well as online links to relevant organizations, and a lengthy bibliography of related books and articles. Covers 1923-present.
Biological and Medical
- Biological Sciences
- Abstracts and citations from over 6000 sources in the fields of biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, ecology, agriculture and veterinary medicine.
- MEDLINE
- Index over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's in 3,500+ journals in the areas of clinical and experimental medicine, nutrition, dentistry, pathology, psychiatry, toxicology, health administration and nursing.
Citing Sources
Citing sources is a critical, yet sometimes complicated, task. The Citation Support section of the Library web site includes background information on citing sources and helpful citation style guides to make the process easier.
More advanced researchers may wish to use RefWorks to save and store citations, generate bibliographies in different styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago), add references to a paper, and format the reference list.
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