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ICSM 10500: History of Secrets

ICSM 10500: History of Secrets
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Finding Databases: Research by Subject

The four key multidisciplinary databases include:

  1. Academic Search Premier
  2. General OneFile  
  3. Google Scholar

Subject specific databases:

  1. SocINDEX with Full Text
  2. JSTOR
  3. America: History and Life
  4. Historical abstracts
  5. MathSciNet
  6. Military and Government Collection
  7. Military and Intelligence Collection

Newspapers

  1. LexisNexis Academic
  2. Newspaper source
  3. New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Citing Sources Using APA

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for many disciplines in the social sciences. The current edition is the sixth (2010).

Subject Specialist
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Ron Gilmour
Web Services Librarian
Tel: (607) 274-3674

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Laura Kuo
Health Sciences Librarian
Tel: (607) 274-1197

Library Tips
Library Research Tips pdf
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US History
World History
Athens and the Ancient World
Mathematics
Computer Science
Tips: trucation and wildcards
Library Catalog
Use a ? to truncate

child? finds: child or children

EBSCO
Go to the HELP screen in the upper right to find wildcards, trucation symbols,etc.

chid* finds: child or children

hum#r finds: humor or humour

LexisNexis:
w/p== humor w/p medicine   finds   the word humor within the same paragraph as medicine

w/s== humor w/s medicine   finds   the word humor within the same sentence as medicine

child! finds: child or children