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Researching topics on Glamour 

From the Library home page, click on Subject Guides for Film Studies; Literature and Literary Criticism; Art; Gender/Women’s Studies; History....

Key research databases 

• Start with Academic Search Premier – general multidisciplinary full text access to journal articles
• Once topic is chosen, use a subject database:  MLA Bibliography for Literature and Film (also try Film Literature Index)
• Art Abstracts for Art, Advertising, Design, Architecture
• America, History & Life for American history
• PsycINFO for Psychology topics

Books 

• Search the Library catalog for books the Library owns

• Search WorldCat to select books for Interlibrary Loan

Google Scholar (Advanced Search – limit to Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities) 

Google (Advanced Search -- .org and .edu)

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Track your Research 

Keep track of databases searched, articles and books ordered through ILL, search strategies used…

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Create a Bibliography Using RefWorks:

 1.     From LIS homepage, click on RefWorks

• Login
• Leave RefWorks open and open new session of Internet Explorer

 2.     Adding references from EBSCOhost databases:

Academic Search PremierA
Art Abstracts
ATLA Religion Database
Business Source Premier
MLA Bibliography
PsycINFO
SocINDEX with Fulltext
SPORTDiscus with FullText       

After searching your topic (in EBSCOhost):

·         When you wish to add a citation to your bibliography, click Add to Folder.

·         When you have selected all your citations (by adding them to folder), click Folder has Items.

·         Click Save

·         Click Bibliographic Manager tab

·         uncheck the "Remove Items from folder" option before exporting

·         Check button:  Direct Export to RefWorks

·         Click Save

 3.  In RefWorks:

     View Last Imported Folder

     Click box to select citation

     Put in Folder:  Glamour

 To create Bibliography:

     Click Bibliography

     Output style: MLA 6^th edition

     Format a Bibliography From a List of References

     File Type to Create:  Word for Windows

     Include References from Folder:  Glamour

     Create Bibliography

Save your bibliography to your computer or disk -- or cut and paste it to your Word document.

 4.  Manually add a reference

 In RefWorks, click on References, select Add New Reference.  Verify you are adding for MLA style.  Enter information in required (*) fields.  Click Save Reference.