Waterbury Campus Library Student Resources FYE Fall 2008

Waterbury Library “ The library contains approximately 45,000 titles and provides electronic access to over 250 online databases and over 50,000 full text journals.”

3,000,000 print items Access to hundreds of databases Access to thousands of ebooks and online journals “ 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000)” as of July 2008! “ Over 7 million articles in over 200 languages, and still growing.” http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/epa0649l.jpg

3,000,000 print items

Access to hundreds of databases

Access to thousands of ebooks and

online journals

http://alistapart.com/d/standardsandcompanies/evangelize-standards.jpg

The deep web (or invisible web or hidden web ) is the name given to pages on the World Wide Web that are not part of the surface web that is indexed by common search engines. It consists of pages which are not linked to by other pages …The deep web also includes sites that require registration or otherwise limit access to their pages… http://metasurfing.blogspot.com/2006/12/new-frontiers-of-internet-bs-deep-web.html

The Nature of Academic Writing based on the research of others www.restena.lu/.../trausch/99/SWIMMY1.JPG

The Nature of Academic Writing expects you to use reputable sources http://www.pleon.it/web/blogs/geektalk.nsf/dx/0501200611.35.35GCAEFB.htm/content/M2?OpenElement

Navigating the Libraries’ Home Page www.lib.uconn.edu Using – Help, Guides, Tutorials, etc. About – Hours, Staff Info, Policies, etc. Homer – searches all UConn resources, including reserves Libraries Homepage: www.lib.uconn.edu

Available to UConn Students on & off-campus Issues & Controversies Summarizes current issues and controversies in political, economic, social and scientific topics Academic Search Premier Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches Literature Resource Center Biographical essays on more than 100,000 authors and criticism and interpretation of plays, novels, poetry and short stories PsycINFO Scholarly articles in psychology … and hundreds more

Can I do research from home?

Off-Campus Access to Library Databases and Electronic Journals The Libraries' licensed research databases and electronic journals can be accessed from off campus by members of University of Connecticut community by logging into the UConn Virtual Private Network (VPN). After logging in, follow the link to return to the Libraries' home page to begin your research.

http://static2.animepaper.net/upload/thumbs/wallpapers/Bleach/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dwallpapers_Bleach_ShiranuTrixter(1.33)__THISRES__76869.jpg Questions ?

Library Contacts: [email_address] 203-236-9908 [email_address] 203-236-9902