Sociology 001 - White

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Fall 2021 Library Hours

Monday: 9am-3pm

Tuesday: 9am-3pm, 5-8pm

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Access articles and electronic books from the Library's subscription databases from off-campus! When you click on a database, you will be prompted for your user name (your student ID) and PIN (the two-digit month and day of your birth in MMDD format). 

Example for student with ID number 88-123-4567 born February 25th:

User name: 881234567
PIN: 0225

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Our Databases are available 24/7 from both on and off-campus.

ProQuest is one of our most popular databases. It covers a wide range of disciplines with content from academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more.

Gale databases include Gale eBooks as other health-related databases.

Use CINAHL to find top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association.

You can also use any of our other databases from the complete list on the library's website. 

Below are suggested databases and search tips for your research.

• Use AND to narrow your results by searching for two keywords simultaneously. 
  Example: slavery AND children
• Use OR to broaden your results by searching for either of two or more keywords
  Enclose terms separated by OR in parentheses
  Example: (domestic OR household)
• Use quotation marks ("") to search for terms as a phrase
  Example: "emancipation proclamation"
• Use asterisks to retrieve additional forms of a word
  Example: wom* retrieves women, woman, women's.
• Limit results to academic or scholarly sources for academic sources.
• Limit results to reviews to see just book reviews.

Putting it all together

Use all the above search tip sto refine your search. 
Example: ("domestic slave" OR "house slave") AND wom*

The library has many databases that contain eBooks. This tutorial shows a step-by-step process for finding eBooks using our Primo OneSearch catalog. 

Additionally, we have a number of eBook collections listed below:

• Ebook Central: (formerly ebrary) Academic Complete subscription and permanent collection with over 128,000 academic ebooks
• EBSCOhost eBooks: Academic Collection subscription with over 138,000 ebooks available
• EBSCOhost Audiobook Collection
• Gale Virtual Reference Library: Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research
• SpringerLink: ebooks on science and technology