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Ask a Librarian

Reference consultations are available in person at Great Valley.

These one-on-one sessions can help students locate materials, develop a search strategy or learn to use the Cat or online databases. To arrange a consultation contact Dolores Fidishun at 610-648-3227 or email.

After hours: ASK! Virtual Reference
http://www.de2.psu.edu/faculty/saw4/vrs/default.html

Virtual Reference Service lets you chat with Penn State librarians to find information in University Libraries databases and on the World Wide Web. With the librarian's assistance, you may perform live database and web searches and continuously chat about your results.

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Education Research Guide

Penn State Great Valley Library: Education Resources
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/greatvalley/education.htm

Learn how to locate articles, books, multimedia, websites and more.

GV Weblinks
http://gv.psu.edu/foweb/lib/gvweblinks/

Looking for sites of interest concerning your area of expertise? This web site provides links to INTERNET sites of interest to researchers and students in Engineering, Education, Management and Management Information Systems. Sites are included that may be used for reference or which may constitute significant organizations within the field.

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Engineering Research Guide

Penn State Great Valley Library: Engineering Resources
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/greatvalley/engin.htm

Learn how to locate articles, books, multimedia, websites and more.

GV Weblinks
http://gv.psu.edu/foweb/lib/gvweblinks/

Looking for sites of interest concerning your area of expertise? This web site provides links to INTERNET sites of interest to researchers and students in Engineering, Education, Management and Management Information Systems. Sites are included that may be used for reference or which may constitute significant organizations within the field.

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Management Research Guide

Penn State Great Valley Library: Management Resources
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/greatvalley/mgmt.htm

Learn how to locate articles, books, multimedia, websites and more.

GV Weblinks
http://gv.psu.edu/foweb/lib/gvweblinks/

Looking for sites of interest concerning your area of expertise? This web site provides links to INTERNET sites of interest to researchers and students in Engineering, Education, Management and Management Information Systems. Sites are included that may be used for reference or which may constitute significant organizations within the field.

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Multimedia Resources

Multimedia Resources
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/greatvalley/media.htm

Everything you need to locate non-print material such as videos, audio cassettes, CDs, CD-ROMS, and DVDs. In addition, you can access digital images, digital libraries, music, TV news and more.

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Style Guides

Websites:

Penn State Great Valley APA Style Guide
Great Valley APA Style Guide.pdf

The University of Wisconson-Madison Writing Center Writer's handbook
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Documentation.html

Citing Sources, Guide to Library Research - Duke University's Libraries
http://library.duke.edu/research/guides/citing/

Provides APA, Chicago, MLA and Turabian style guides on citing journal, magazine and newspaper articles, books, government documents, primary sources, web pages and more.

Online! Citation Styles
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

Provides APA, MLA, CBE, and Chicago style guides on citing websites, email messages, web discussion postings, listserv and newsgroup messages.

Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement - Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Esources/index.html

GV Weblinks - Citing Your Work
http://gv.psu.edu/foweb/lib/gvweblinks/

Books:

BF76.7.P83 2001
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association

Z253.C5701 15th.ed.
The Chicago manual of style

LB2369.S38 2001
The Harcourt guide to MLA documentation
Schwartz, Linda Smoak

LB2369.T8 1996 REF
A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations Turabian, Kate L.

Tutorials

Penn State Tutorials
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/tutorials.htm

Includes tutorials on Engineering Resources, the CAT tutorial, the Information Cycle, Quick Guide to the CAT, Patents Tutorial, Locating Company Information, Locating Industry Information, and Information Literacy & You.

Boolean Search Tutorials
http://www.gv.psu.edu/foweb/lib/boolean_search/index.html

This tutorial is designed to help you improve the skills you use to search on-line catalogs, databases and the Internet.

"What's a Journal" tutorial
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/minutemodule/index.html

"What's A Journal" is the first in a forthcoming series of "shorts" intended to meet students' quick information needs.

More Tutorials:

Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement - Dartmouth College http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/index.html

TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial - University of Texas at Austin http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

Guide to Library Research - Duke University
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/home.htm

Bare Bones 101 - A Very Basic Web Search Tutorial - University of South Carolina
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html

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Career & Job Information

Penn State Great Valley Library: Career and Job Information
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/greatvalley/gv_jobs.html

This research guide includes reference books related to career development and job hunting, as well as providing information on books, online resources and websites.

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News & Newspaper Information

Penn State Great Valley Library: News & Newspaper Information
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/greatvalley/news.htm

 

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Book Reviews

Databases

Periodicals Archive Online
http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/eresources/PERIODARCHIVE

Periodicals Archive Online is the new name for PCI Full Text - an archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It provides researchers with access to more than 200 years of scholarship, spread across a wide variety of subject areas, direct from their computer.

Proquest Direct
http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/eresources/PROQUEST

Contains recent full-text of numerous magazines, journals, and newspapers. The best way to search for reviews is by using a combination of the book title and author's last name on separate lines in your search, and limiting your results to book reviews.  At the bottom of the screen locate the Document Type drop down menu and select Book Reviews from the list, and click the Search button.  

Periodicals Index Online
http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/eresources/PERIODINDEX

A retrospective index to back files of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences in over forty languages. Though the focus is on the twentieth century, coverage of many titles dates to the eighteenth century. Includes links to full text of articles available from Periodicals Archive Online

ChoiceReviews Online
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?Where=Go+There&what=CHOICEREVIEWS

Provides electronic access to the text of all reviews published in Choice since September 1988. The database is updated monthly.

JSTOR
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?where=Go+There&what=JSTOR

Full-text of selected scholarly journals. Coverage begins with the first issue, and excludes the most recent years

NoveList
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?Where=Go+There&what=NOVELIST

NoveList is a readers' advisory service that lists over 100,000 titles, and contains 75,000 full text reviews of works of fiction. The product's Find a Favorite Author or Find a Favorite Title feature permits users to locate lists of books in their favorite fiction areas. NoveList adds about 10,000 new fiction records to the database per year, along with reviews and descriptions, when they are available.

Project Muse
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?where=Go+There&what=MUSE

Recent full-text of scholarly journals in various disciplines.

Ethnic NewsWatch  
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?where=Go+There&what=ETHNICNEWS

Full-text database with magazines, newspapers and other publications from ethnic, minority, or native presses. To narrow your search  to reviews select Advanced Search , and then choose the Article Type Book Review . 

Lexis-Nexis
http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/eresources/LEXIS

Full-text of newspapers and magazines. Select News then Arts and Sports to look for book, movie, and performance reviews. 

Print

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. 1900-2001
INDEXES-GV --- Call no.: AI3 .R48

An index to articles and reviews appearing in over 200 general interest publications. Since 1976 Book Reviews can be found in a separate section at the end of each volume. Most reviews prior to 1976 appear in the Book Review Digest, published by the same company.

Websites

New York Times Book Review
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/review/index.html

New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/

Publishers Weekly.com
http://www.publishersweekly.com/community/Reviews/47159.html

AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
http://www.acqweb.org/bookrev.html

Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/

Book Reviews - Missouri State Libraries
http://library.missouristate.edu/resources/bkreview.shtml

H-Net Reviews
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/

H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource.

Education Review a journal of book reviews
http://edrev.asu.edu/

Education Book Reviews
http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/reviews/

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