This document provides information about different resources for conducting research accessible through the Cal State LA library. It outlines tools for multi-searching the library catalog and databases from other libraries, searching newspaper articles from over 1300 publications, searching journal articles by title or subject, finding book reviews, and using Google Scholar which allows searches of scholarly resources and links to full text articles. The learning objectives are to learn about resources that can be used for inter-disciplinary research topics and that provide article recommendations.

1. ACCESSING THE
INFORMATION YOU NEED
LIBR 250
Week 5
Jayati Chaudhuri

2. Multi-Search
Newspaper articles
Journal search
Book reviews
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

3. Google equivalent for scholarly resources
Search for inter-disciplinary topic
Contain article recommendation
MULTI-SEARCH

4. Search for books from CSULA library catalog
Books in other CSUs & Local Libraries
Books from Libraries Worldwide
Export to RefWorks
http://web.calstatela.edu/library/
MULTI-SEARCH

5. Newsstand
Covers full text of over 1300 newspapers
Major newspapers include the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, USA
Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian
http://web.calstatela.edu/library/
NEWSPAPER

6.  Title search
Browse journals
by subject
JOURNAL SEARCH

7. Multi Search
Academic Search Premier
ABI Inform/Global
Newsstand
BOOK REVIEWS

8. • GS is a subset of Google™
• Seems to be concentrated in science & technology
• Quick start, easy to use
• Can access full text articles from by clicking on the
your library link
• http://scholar.google.com/
GOOGLE SCHOLAR