Physics of Astronomy Research Page
Physics of Astronomy Research Page
Winter 2004 Librarian: Sarah Pedersen x6647 pederses@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen Library Home Page: www.evergreen.edu/library then click on Library Catalog
I. Books: Beyond TESC's collection
*Summit : You'll find the link for Summit on the main library catalog page and each page of the library catalog. Summit searches 26 libraries in Oregon & Washington, including the enormous UW collection. You may then order the books you find and they will be sent to TESC Circulation where you'll be able to pick them up in 3 to 4 working days.
*World Cat : Another link from the library catalog page, World Cat searches library holdings beyond Summit. You can order books found in World (and not in TESC or Summit) through your on-line interlibrary loan account with ILLiad.ILLiad : Another link from the library catalog home page which allows you to set up an account and order books and journal articles from other libraries.
II. Scholary journal literature
NASA Astrophysical Data System (many search parameter options; included most abstracts and many links to full-text articles)
Astrophysical Journal (search by title in the Journal Title search of the library catalog to get to the link)
Interdisciplinary Journal Databases
Page 1: Full-text
JSTOR: 100% full-text, goes back to the earliest issues of a journal, and includes only scholarly, core journals. A pretty small database, though. Available only on campus.
Huge, partially full-text, interdisciplinary databases:
Ebscohost: Use the "peer-reviewed" option if you want to screen out the jorunalism and opinion-pieces.
Proquest: Everything from newspapers to scholarly journals. Strong coverage of public policy and other social science topics. Off-campus access with passwords. Again, use the "peer-reviewed" option.
H. W. Wilson: Tends more toward the scholarly, so there is less junk than in the previous two collections, and you still have a "peer-reviewed" search option.
*Scientific Databases, Indexes and Abstracts
Page 2: Journal Indexes (and Abstracts)
Indexing and abstracting services are databases which identify and make searchable the journal literature, but do not include the full text of the articles which they index. To get your mitts on the articles you find:
- Copy (better yet, mark and then print) the citations from these databases
- Search our catalog under journal title to figure out if we have a subscription and make note of the location, format and years of coverage of our subscription--this search will tell you about periodicals available full-text in all our databases, on microfilm and on paper. We even include links to on-line journals you have access to on the Web, if we know about them.
- If we do not own the subscription or the year you need, paste the citation information into an ILLiad order form to have a copy of the article sent to you.
Most indexes in the sciences at TESC are focused on biology. An important exception is the Web of Science Science Citation Index.
Librarian-mediated searches of Dialog databases are sometimes useful IF you use the resources listed above but find that you need to dig deeper. You must have a clear idea of what you need and the language used in the literature you have found to that point.
III. Web Guides & Generally Accessible Websites
IV. Organizing your research process
Refer to the Style guides link under Quick Reference
Print all potentially relevant citations
E-mail or download (digitize) all citations for future use in your bibliography (or ILLiad requests)
Record the source of your citations (which database they came from)
