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FIND AN ARTICLE: SEARCH THE LIBRARY’S DATABASES

These databases are either tailored to your subject or they provide coverage over a wide range of interdisciplinary topics. Before you start, you might take a look at some tips on searching databases.

• Academic Search Premier: An interdisciplinary database that provides full text for nearly 4,600 journals, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles
• Issues and Controversies: Covers current social topics that inspire debate and controversy and offers information on both sides of the argument
• Points of View: Offers overviews on a variety of current events and sets of opposing viewpoints on controversial subjects

FIND A BOOK: ONLINE OR IN THE LIBRARY

If you can't go the library's stacks, check out our collection of online reference books:

• Credo Reference Online: Access to more than 600 reference books, including general and specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries for overviews on topics.
• World Geography and Culture Online: Compare cultures and find maps.
• Encyclopedia of American Environmental History:  Covers every significant issue, event, law, and figure in U.S. environmental history
• Encyclopedia of Revolutionary America:  A comprehensive A-to-Z encyclopedia that includes discussion of the continental U.S. and contains coverage of the Atlantic world and the North American continent
• Popular Controversies in World History: Investigation History's Intriguing Questions:  Offers an educational examination of events and phenomena, from the earliest evidence of human activity to controversial events of the 20th century
• What Happened? An Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever:  Covers critically important events in American history from the 17th century to the present

If you can visit the library, it's easy to browse our collection because we organize books by their subject:

You also might try these reference books:

• Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History: A five-volume set that provides overviews and articles on topics, arranged in alphabetical order Ref D 23 .B45 2005
• Dictionary of American History: A 10-volume set that contains an overview of the major events in American History and that includes learning guides and an index Ref E 174 .D52 2003
• The Middle Ages: A two-volume encyclopedia that covers events in Europe from 477 to 1453 Ref D 119 .G74 2005
• The Renaissance: Two encyclopedic volumes that discusses events that took place between 1454 and 1600 in Europe Ref D 228 .G73 2005
• The 17th Century: A two-volume set that provides entries on European history from 1601 to 1700 Ref D 246 .G68 2006
• Africana: A five-volume set that offers information on the culture and history pertaining to the African Diaspora, including articles on the experience of African Americans Ref DT 14 .A37435 2005
• Native American Tribes: Four encyclopedic volumes, divided geographically, that offer overviews of Native American culture along with profiles of major figures and events Ref E 77 .G15 1998
• Civil Rights in the United States: A two-volume set that provides information on civil rights, including photographs, bibliographies after each entry, and an index Ref E 184 .A1 C47 2000
• Encyclopedia of African History:: Three volumes of alphabetical entries on African history that are also arranged in a thematic list, including an index Ref DT 20 .E53 2005

FIND A WEBSITE: USE INTERNET RESOURCES WISELY

Although these websites are likely to be accurate, you should still evaluate information found on the Internet.

• The Oregon Encyclopedia: The history and culture of Oregon in a searchable database of articles.
• Historic Oregon Newspapers: Newspapers from Coos County and through the state, pre-1923.
• The History Place: Offers basic information on US and European history, including timelines, presidential portraits, and a collection of famous speeches
• Country Studies: Provides governmental data on nations from around the world, including current information and historical overviews
• Eyewitness to History: Provides eyewitness accounts of historical events from the ancient world to the twentieth century, along with photographs and an index
• The History Net: Offers information from various history magazines and includes photo galleries and book reviews
• The History Channel: Provides historical resources, such as timelines, maps, and encyclopedia articles
• HyperHistory: Contains an interactive, synchronic timeline that can be organized by topic or events and includes maps and biographical lifelines
• Guide to World War I documents: Offers links to digitized documents on the web that pertain to World War I and includes a bibliography, hosted by the Library of Congress
• Avalon Project’s World War II Collection: Provides the text-version of significant and speeches documents from World War II and is maintained by Yale Law School
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Provides lists of resources for history scholars, including links to articles or bibliographies, and is edited by a history professor at Fordham

FIND A PRINT JOURNAL: READ THE LATEST ISSUES

The library subscribes to magazines and journals that are related to your field. Head to Tioga 2 and browse through some of these journals:

• Journal of American History
• Magazine of History
• OAH Newsletter 
• Current History 
• Pacific Northwest Quarterly
• Coos County Historical Society Museum Newsletter
• Oregon Historical Quarterly
• American Historical Review

CITATION GUIDES: CREATE A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Whether you use websites, electronic journals, reference books, or print resources, you will need a bibliography. Here’s some information on how to cite your sources:

• Avoid inadvertent plagiarism: [PDF] It’s possible to copy from a source and not even know that you’ve done anything wrong.
• KnightCite: This great site formats the bibliographic entry for you, and you can select the appropriate style (MLA, APA, Chicago).
• Guide to the MLA style: [PDF] The MLA-style is generally used for papers written in the humanities.
• Guide for the APA style: [PDF] The APA-style is generally used for papers written in the social sciences, especially psychology.

FIND MORE HELP: USE COLLEGE RESOURCES

Don’t hesitate to talk to a librarian, a tutor, or your instructor when conducting research. Make the most of these resources!

• Library Hours
• Writing Center
• Tutoring Lab