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Services
 Computers/wireless access
 Pay for print/copy
 Online help pages
 Ask-a-Librarian – online chat service
 Interlibrary Loan – obtain resources from
other libraries

Library Catalog
 books
 e-books
 audio books
 materials from other Florida
community colleges
 materials placed on reserve by your
professor

Library Databases
 FKCC has access to over 95 databases - all
free of charge to students with full text and
multimedia.
 We can help you select appropriate databases
to use for research.

Your professor asked you to use scholarly
articles.
What are scholarly articles?
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/peabody/t
utorials/scholarlyfree/

Still need to find resources on
the Internet?
Be sure to evaluate your sources

Accuracy
 Is the information accurate?
 Can you verify the information in another source?
 Does the page cite well-known sources or
authorities?

Authority
 Is the author identified?
 Is there reason given to assume that the author is
an authority in the subject?
 Does the author provide contact information?
 If the author is identified as a corporation or
organization is there information available about
the reliability of the group?

Currency
 Is the information current?
 When was the web site created? When was it last
updated?
 Are the links working?
Point of View/Bias
 Is the primary purpose of the site advertising or
is it informational?
 Does the information contradict something you
already know or have learned from another
source?
 Does the author have an agenda or trying to sway
his/her audience?

Google search:
Smoking AND Cancer AND Statistics
http://www.smokinglungs.com/
versus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smoking
.html

Let’s search the Library Catalog &
Databases

If you need help with research paper style and
citation guides, you can visit our Research
Blog:
http://fkcclibraryresearch.blogspot.com/

 FKCC Library web site:
http://library.fkcc.edu
 This
Power Point will be available on the
FKCC Library Research Blog:
http://fkcclibraryresearch.blogspot.com