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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.

Reference Universe Off-campus access
Some full text. Reference Universe helps you find the right article--the authoritative article--to begin your research, whether it's on your shelves in a reference work or in an online reference database

Identify

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

Databases

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

Access World News Off-campus access
Mostly 1990's-present online resource that provides full-text information from over 1,000 United States and international newspapers and news services.

Academic Search Premier Off-campus access
2-popular/primary

ACM Guide to Computing Literature
Index to key journals, conference proceedings, books, and more in Computer Science--published by the ACM.

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts Off-campus access
Spanning 1983-present, this database covers topics in areas that include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management.

Applied Science & Technology Index
Call Number: Offsite Storage Facility

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International Off-campus access
1972-present. Includes scholarly and non-scholarly articles, books, government documents, reports and more, covering global public policy and social issues.

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.

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

OAIster Off-campus access
Contains digital resources from 1,000+ open archive collections; includes a wide array of materials--digitized books and articles, audio files, images, movies, data sets, theses and dissertations, technical reports, research papers, and more. OAIster was originally developed at the University of Michigan Libraries.

Google Scholar
Look for links to publications available through Grinnell; use only as a supplement to the sources above and below.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (Annual)
Call Number: Burling 1st Floor, Reference Area--ask at the circulation desk for help locating.
An index of the most popular, general-interest periodicals published in the United States, reflecting the history of 20th century America.

INSPEC
3-primary Contact Kevin Engel for access to INSPEC. Covers over 4,100 journals, book reviews, conference proceedings, and dissertations in the areas of physics, electronics, and computer science.

Computing Research Repository (CoRR)/NCSTRL
Covers 1993-present.

MathSciNet Off-campus access
1940-present. Covers the world's mathematical literature. Provides Web access to the signed reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Available off-campus via proxy server.

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
4-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

Sources of Statistics

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.

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