AAS 400

SPECIAL TOPICS

HURRICANE KATRINA

 

LIBRARY CONTACTS

Subject Specialist:
Bonnie Ryan,
O:315-443-4674,
bcryan@syr.edu

 

Syracuse University Library Web site http://library.syr.edu

ASK US! (Phone, Email, and IM reference with Librarian on duty)

 

http://library.syr.edu/research/internet/african_american/AAS400hurricanekatrinaf2008.html

 

HOW TO EVALUATE YOUR SOURCES    

Evaluating Internet Sources

          University of Berkeley Library

Critically Analyzing Information Sources   

                     Cornell University Library

Citation Support

 

CHOOSING KEY TERMS

When you have chosen your research statement or question(s), take some time to break the statement down into key concepts, and then into key terms or phrases. You will use these terms in the various databases to find sources on your topic.

Example: Use of dialect to establish community/identity or as a social barrier.
Key Terms: Dialect, community, identity, social barriers

 

Some hints for choosing key terms:

Be flexible: After dividing you statement into key terms, think of alternative terms, such as synonyms, or broader, narrower, or related terms. Each database may use different keyword or subject terms to describe a topic.

Example: Dialect (broader- African Americans languages; narrower - Ebonics or Black English)

Think globally and chronologically: Consider terms that contain a geographic area, or a broad or specific time period.

 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Print Resources

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences H41 .I58 2001 v. 1-26 REF

Online Resources

CQ Researcher - An encyclopedia addressing public policy issues.

 

DATABASES - Journal and Newspaper Articles

Library subscribed databases for Newspapers

Black Studies Center - Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion. and much more.

JSTOR - Full-text archive of scholarly publications in mathematics, science, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.

Project Muse - Full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

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 The New York times and The Wall Street journal.

Social Sciences Full Text - Index with abstracts in sociology, social work, aging, gerontology, child and family studies, marriage and family therapy and other social sciences. Index with abstracts to more than 400 international, English-language periodicals.to more than 400 international, English-language periodicals.

Sociological Abstracts - Bibliographic coverage of sociology, social work, aging, gerontology, child and family studies, marriage and family therapy and other social sciences.

 

STATISTICAL AND MAP SOURCES

Data resources

Maps & Cartography

 

 

 

For further help with data  and map sources contact:

Paul Bern Numeric Data Services Librarian 555 Bird Library 443-1352 phbern@syr.edu

John Olson Maps/GIS Librarian 358 Bird Library 443-4818 jaolson@syr.edu