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EES 90: LANDS OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN
NOTE: If you have questions , contact Brian Simboli , x5003. Room 633 in Fairchild-Martindale Library. Please make appt. in advance. Reference librarians are also available 1-5 in the consulting room behind the help desk that is in the lobby of Fairchild-Martindale Library.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LINDERMAN RENOVATION
RESEARCH TIPS
LIBRARY DATABASES TO USE
OBTAINING COPIES OF PAPERS AND OTHER MATERIALS
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
Fairchild-Martindale houses sciences, social sciences, and business materials. Linderman houses humanities and is closed until Jan. 2007. For information about how to retrieve material from Linderman, go the library homepage and look in upper right under the header Linderman Renovation. Note: "New humanities books, small core circulating and reference collections, leisure reading, new issues of humanities periodicals and humanities reserves have been moved to Fairchild-Martindale Library. See the Linderman FAQ for details http://www.lehigh.edu/lts/linderman/faq.html."
These resources created by Lehigh librarians to help you conduct research are well worth reviewing:
INFORMATION LITERACY TUTORIALS FOR STUDENTS
The library has different types of databases that can help with your research.
1. Reference databases, which include encyclopedia articles and dictionaries. These help you come up to speed on background information and terminology for your topic.
Great place to get background information about science and technology topics.
Example Find article about "arctic ocean". Find a definition of "arctic haze".
A few other examples of reference databases: Oxford Reference Online and Xreferplus
2. Databases that identify articles and other types of material. These enable you in many cases to get to the electronic full text (see explanation and examples below).
When doing subject searching (from help doc.):
"It's usually best to search for only one or two words. If you enter more than one word, enter the most important word
first, even if that looks backwards. Use one or more wildcards if you're unsure of spelling or want to search for variant forms
of a word. The word and is ignored. The words or and not are both treated as logical operators and the use of either one forces a keyword
search."
Also try:
Research Library For tips on using, scroll down here to the section labeled Using Research Library.
And:
ASA. Use this to look up books and journals and other library materials. If you are looking up a journal, look up the name of the journal, not the name of a specific article in a journal.
Example: look up Scientific American. This is a good place to go for scientific articles relating to your projects.
Many other databases are available in a long list here, depending on your slant on the subject. In the upper left, you can select specific types of databases (for example, social sciences or sciences or humanities).
For example, if you are interested in literary aspects of the arctic or antarctic, see MLA Bibliography.
A simple search on eliot and shackleton in this database comes up with these items:
Government documents is on the second floor south of Fairchild-Martindale Library.
A good contact there is Steve Firtko.
OBTAINING COPIES OF PAPERS AND OTHER MATERIALS
We have used bibliographic databases to find references and abstracts for papers that look interesting.
How do you actually locate the paper(s)?
(1.) After doing your online search in a library database, see if there is an "SFX" link for the item. If we have the electronic full text of a journal article, you can link to it from that link. Here is what an SFX link looks like on just one library database:
Shifting to another library database, the link looks like this:
SFX links are available on most if not all of the library's bibliographic databases.
Look around for them; you shouldn't have trouble finding them.
If full text of an article is available electronically, you can get to it off an SFX link. If not, off the SFX link you can check ASA to see if we have the item in print at the library or click on ILLiad to use an "ILLiad" form, that is, interlibrary loan form. Using this form requires a one-time registration. When you use ILLiad, the data is automatically entered for you on the form.You may be able to receive the article electronically in your email. Don't wait until the last moment to place interlibrary loan orders.
For more information about SFX, link here.
(2.) If you have a citation but not are not in a database like Academic Index you can go directly to ASA (available off the library homepage) to see if Lehigh has the journal, either in paper or electronic format. Select "browse", type in the title of the journal, and then click "Journal Titles".
NOTE:
- A record will come up that tells you where the journal can be found in the library, if it is in print.
- Journals in electronic format have a link right out of the ASA record.
(3.) You may want to see if one of the regional libraries has the journal.
(4.) In addition to using SFX to order an article, you may order an item through interlibrary loan by using the forms available here under "Interlibrary Loan". Books can be ordered via the PALCI link there and other materials via the ILLiad link. Don't wait til the last moment to order items.through ILL.
An additional way to find papers: browse the tables of contents of recent issues or archived (bound) copies in the library, or look for relevant electronic journals browsable here by title or linked on ASA .
If you engage in plagiarism, there is a good chance you will be found out, with serious consequences. Even without intending to engage in plagiarism, you may unwittingly do so. To avoid it, familiarize yourself with what it is. If you learn how to do footnoting in the proper style, this can help you avoid problems.
Here are some Lehigh University Library webpages that can help you get started:
NOTE: These webpages are not a substitute for whatever instructions your instructor gives about correct footnoting style and what constitutes plagiarism.
BDS 9/15/05
