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Eng 399 - Globalization, Culture, & Society (Prof. John Muthyala)
Introduction
| Reference Sources
| Indexes & Databases
| Internet Resources
| Writing the Paper
For further research assistance, please contact Zip Kellogg 780-4272, USM Libraries, University of Southern Maine
This course guide, tailored specifically for Professor Muthyala's Globalization course (English 399), pulls together many sources of information. It includes a strategy for finding current articles (see Resources by Subject), books (URSUS), reserve readings, and much more. Bottom line: if you look only in Google you are probably missing a lot.
To search the library from home, an office, etc. you will need a USM ID card...you will be asked to type in your last name and bar code number (which begins with 25022...).
Sometimes the USM Libraries will not have the books or articles you need. When this happens you should use the Inter Library Loan Department because they can get you practically anything the library doesn't own. It generally takes the library 2-3 days to get articles from elsewhere and 5-7 days for books.
Reference Sources generally give you a short overview of a topic, useful statistics, often some history, and more. They are an excellent place to start research on ANY topic new to you. Here are a few that you may find useful:
Access UN
Index to United Nations documents and publications. Provides full-text access to publications of the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Economic and Social Council.
Annals of American History
Provides access to over 2,100 original full-text source documents on United States history from 1493 to the present. Includes speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, poems, interviews, and editorials from more than 1,500 authors.
Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews offers comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews published each year for 29 focused disciplines within the biological, medical, physical and social sciences.
Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Contains digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government
Britannica Online
A reliable and well known encyclopedia.
Census 2000 Gateway
Access to population, housing, social and economic statistics from the 2000 Census.
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship is a U.S. not-for-profit organization supporting the use of computer technologies in the service of communication scholarship and education.
Congressional Research Service reports
Includes reports done for the U.S. Congress on a very broad range of topics.
CQ Researcher
Explores a single hot issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Enyclopedia
A good general encyclopedia.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Historical Statistics of the United States is a database that contains quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. Also covers a variety of other topics such as American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. Allows one to graph and combine data from different tables into custom tables, and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and other applications.
National Gallery of Art Presents information about the collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Allows users to search the collection by artist, title, or a combination of criteria. Contains a list of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper that are grouped by school. Links to the National Gallery of Art
Official documents of the United Nations
Official Document System of the United Nations(ODS)covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993, and selected earlier coverage.
Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
Includes online access to many of the Standard and Poor's research products and publications, including Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, and The Outlook.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Provides access to approximately 1500 statistical tables drawn from published and unpublished data from federal agencies plus some state and private sources. Click Contents and Index to find specific tables. Use the Table of Contents to select tables from a list of broad topics (e.g. Population or Transportation). Use the Index A-Z to identify more specific topics (e.g. pets or jogging). Updated annually.
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
A collection of documentary projects pertaining to women and social movements in the United States. Primary source materials include books, images, manuscripts, journal articles, phamplets, letters, commentaries and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.
These are places to find current articles. Remember, to link to these you'll need the bar code number on your USM ID card. If the library does not subscribe to a journal you need they will get it for you and you'll receive the article as an e-mail attachment. Magic! If you've not done this before...it's easy...follow directions here or ask a librarian how it's done.
Professor Muthyala may want you looking in some specific journals, like the International Journal Of Cultural Studies (Online) or Boundary 2 (Online). To look at these you'll need to type in your last name and bar code number (25022...) from your USM picture ID card (if you are off campus...no bar code needed on campus).
Project MUSE
Indexes and provides full-text access to over 220 journals from 37 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Business Source Premier
Provides full text for more than 2,800 scholarly business journals of which 912 are peer reviewed. Coverage includes: management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
Christian Science Monitor
Index to and full text coverage from 1988 to the present of a major daily (M-F) newspaper offering international and US news and features.
CQ Weekly
Updated weekly, provides full-text articles on the U.S. Congress, including pending active legislation and floor votes.
New York Times
Index to and full text coverage of the US newspaper of record from 1999 to the present. Offers in-depth coverage of national and international news, plus transcripts of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conferences.
Wall Street Journal
Index to and full text coverage of the nation's leading business daily from 1984 to the present.
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (YCSG) was launched in the fall of 2001 to enrich the debate about globalization on campus and to promote the flow of ideas between Yale and the policy world.
This category contains information on how to write the paper. In using resources it is important that they be used ethically and legally. The sources listed here provide assistance in this process.
Writing Handbook
A Writer's Reference, by Diana Hacker, 5th Edition
POR and GOR Reference PE1408 .H2778 2003
Includes sections on composing and revising, design, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, writing, and documentation. The Student Companion web site includes online help.
Online: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format (Updated to 5th Edition) (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)
Citation Style: MLA
Citing Sources (MLA) (Indiana University)
MLA (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition
POR Reference LB2369 .G53 2003
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format (Purdue University Online Writing Center)
Plagiarism
How to Recognize Plagiarism (Indiana University School of Education)
Created by: Zip Kellogg
Created on: 06.05.2007
Last Updated: 09.12.2007
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