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Current Biography Yearbook
Call Number: Burling Reference CT100 .C8
Covers 1940 to present.

Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Call Number: Science Library Reference Q141 .D5 1970
Contains excellent bibliographies.

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Call Number: Science Library Reference Q141 .N45 2008
Contains excellent bibliographies.

Information Strategy

Information Strategy
A basic guide for tracking down relevant, high-quality information needed for papers, lab reports, discussions, and other purposes.

Define

Define...
... a topic by gathering background/overview information; help formulate your question.

AccessScience Off-campus access
The online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and Yearbooks and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, and more.

Oxford Reference Online (ORO) Off-campus access
Provides full text of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations from 175+ Oxford reference titles, many of which are in-depth, scholarly entries.

Identify

Identify
... specific sources of information about the defined topic--to answer your question

Databases

Academic Search Premier Off-campus access
1-popular

LexisNexis Academic Off-campus access
Useful for coverage of newspapers and some popular magazines 1980's-present; use the Power Search.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (Annual)
Call Number: Burling 1st Floor, Reference Area--ask at the circulation desk for help locating.
In paper; covers 1890-present.

Grinnell College Libraries
2-popular/primary

Academic Search Premier Off-campus access
Dates vary. An extensive multidisciplinary database providing full text for thousands of publications, including thousands of peer-reviewed journals.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International Off-campus access
For another perspective--spanning 1972-present, this database includes scholarly and non-scholarly articles, books, government documents, reports and more, covering global public policy and social issues.

Anthropological Literature Off-campus access
1984-. Indexes journal articles and edited works in archaeology, anthropology and linguistics, with primary emphasis on: archaeology, anthropology (biological & physical, cultural, and social), and linguistics. Also covers sociology, history, ethnohistory, demography, geography, international development, and human genetics.

EconLit Off-campus access
For another perspective--spanning 1969-present, this database provides citations for journals, books, dissertations, and working papers on economics from hundreds of sources. Available off-campus via proxy server.

America: History and Life Off-campus access
Indexes 2,000 journals published worldwide covering the history of the United States and Canada. Coverage includes articles, book and media reviews, and abstracts of dissertations.

Historical Abstracts Off-campus access
Covers world history after 1450, except for the U.S. and Canada. Includes articles from over 2,000 journals, books, collections, and dissertations.

United States Federal Government Documents

Periodicals Index Online Off-campus access
Index to millions of articles, some in full-text, published in over 3,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 1665 to 1995. Scope is world-wide and includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and other Western languages.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Archive Off-campus access
1915-1976. Includes scholarly and non-scholarly articles, books, government documents, reports and more, covering global public and social policies and international relations.

AGRICOLA Off-campus access
3-primary

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Off-campus access
A multidisciplinary database providing coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from nearly 6,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

CAB Abstracts
4-primary Contact Science Librarian for use of this database.

WorldCat Off-campus access
Before 1000 B.C. to the present. The OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other materials held in libraries worldwide. Contains millions of records.

Science Citation Index
5-primary Contact Kevin Engel for access to the Science Citation Index. A unique database that allows you to discover who has cited (referred to) a particular article or book since it was originally published.

Reference Sources

AP images (Associated Press) Off-campus access
Provides 24/7 access to over 4.9 million primary source photos from 1825 to the present. Additionally, provides audio, video, graphics and interactives. Constantly updated, AP Images is an important resource for virtually every discipline. This database may be used for educational purposes only. Images may not be posted on the Web or otherwise made available electronically to anyone outside the Grinnell College community. These images may not be republished or distributed in newspapers, newsletters, magazines, brochures, catalogs, yearbooks, calendars, posters, or similar materials.

Sources of Statistics

Agro-MAPS
A global database of agricultural land-use information. Created by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the International Food Policy Research Institute. Data can be mapped online or downloaded for use in desktop GIS programs.

Taxonomy Database
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine.

Ground Water & Drinking Water
United States Environmental Protection Agency

Drinking Water Standards

List of Drinking Water Contaminants & MCLs

Ground Water & Drinking Water Topics

Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater
Call Number: Science Library QD142 .A5

USGS Water Resources Data of the United States

Locate

Locate
... the publications identified above at Grinnell or elsewhere--get your information

Grinnell College Libraries
Books, media, Web sites, databases, art work, and more

Journal Finder
Journals, magazines, and newspapers available through the Grinnell College Libraries.

Interlibrary Loan

Other Library Catalogs

Iowa State University Library Catalog

University of Iowa Libraries Catalog

Evaluate

Evaluate
...the validity, objectivity, and usefulness of the information

Resources on Elections, Members and Constituencies

Congress Matters
Liberal blog affiliated with Daily Kos that seeks to chronicle, in detail, how Congress goes about its daily business. Lots of information, with good explanations of Congressional procedures.

Web sites

Pew Hispanic Center
Founded in 2001, the Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization that seeks to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the nation.