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Complete A-Z List of over 50 Databases

Can't get into databases from off-campus? Help for accessing electronic databases from home.

Periodicals Holdings List - A complete list of electronic and print periodicals.

Print Periodicals by Subject - Find print periodicals available in the Highline College Library organized by subject.

Books

Highline Library Catalog
Ebrary Books
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Electronic encyclopedias)
Safari Books Online (Technology)
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

Complete A-Z List of over 50 Databases

Citing

Citing Sources - Snippet According to Dr. Sharron Cassavant (Northeastern Univ.), the purpose of citing sources is:

To acknowledge your indebtedness to the words and/or ideas of someone else.
To allow your reader to find what you found in the course of your research.

Citing sources will help you avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism has been defined as "using others' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information." (Indiana University)

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use

another person's idea, opinion, or theory;
any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings--any pieces of information--that are not common knowledge;
quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or
paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.

Citation Styles

Printable Guides

APA Style [PDF version] [html version]
MLA Style [PDF version] [html version]

Other Sources

Electronic References | APA Style Information excerpted from the 5th edition of the Publication Manual (© 2001). "Because electronic media change rapidly, we will update this page regularly as there are additions, changes, or clarifications to APA style.
Citing Sources (Duke University Libraries) has APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian examples.
Research and Documentation Online: (Diane Hacker) This is a "how to" on APA, MLA, Chicago Style and Science. Includes in-text citations, the works cited page, and examples.
CBE Citation Style Guide is a link to a style page from Ohio State University.

Citing Images

Citing Images - (U. of Cincinnati)
Citing Images - (Simon Fraser U.)

Citing Software

Citation Machine (The Landmark Project)

Information Literacy News

National Library Workers Day is Today 4/14/09
First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation’s libraries, librarians and library workers to promote library use and support at all types of libraries – school, public, academic and [...]

Source: Highline Library Blog » Information Literacy Posted: April 14, 2009 at 9:22 am

Research Resources News

Google News Timeline
Google News Timeline On April 20, Google unveiled a new experimental product called Google News Timeline that displays news and related search results on an interactive timeline. It offers interesting possibilities for exploring stories, especially older ones, that are largely hidden in newspaper and magazine archives. It is also a powerful way to view trends in [...]

Source: Highline Library Blog » Research Resources Posted: April 23, 2009 at 1:05 pm