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Guides Available at the Social Science Reference
Desk of the CSUS Library
- Linda J. Goff and Bob Locke, Library Instruction Handbook: A
Guide to Thinking Critically and Finding Information (for purchase
at the bookstore and on reserve).
- EUREKA Gateway Resources
- STYLE MANUALS AND GUIDES TO RESEARCH AND WRITING, compiled by Jennifer
D. Ware, Betty Ronayne, and Laura Archbold
- GUIDE TO INFORMATION SOURCES IN GOVERNMENT, compiled by Rosalind
Van Auker and Carolyn Zeitler
- ECONOMICS: SELECTED SOURCES, compiled by Bill Kristie
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: SELECTED RESEARCH GUIDES AND SOURCES, compiled
by John Liberty
- RESEARCHING PUBLIC POLICY DEVELOPMENT, compiled by Roz Van Auker
and Bill Kristie
- CONSUMER PRICE INDEX SOURCES, compiled by Betty Ronayne
- CALIFORNIA LAW ON LEXIS/NEXIS, compiled by Bill Budge
- UNITED STATES LAW ON LEXIS/NEXIS, compiled by Bill Budge
- TELEPHONE NUMBERS, ADDRESSES AND E-MAIL DIRECTORIES ON THE INTERNET,
compiled by Misa L. Whiteford
- SUBJECT GUIDE to ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (available in the
CSUS Library)
Guides
for Distance Learning Students
On
Evaluating Sites
Students should take any of the excellent short courses offered by
the University Library. The reference library can be accessed here.
Also important is the CSUS
Library Home Page.
As experienced users of the Web know, not only is there great difficulty
finding the best material for a project (because so much exists), but
Web sites must also be evaluated critically before their contents are
used for research.
Though somewhat out of date, Politics on the Net by William
Mann (Que, 1995) is useful. In addition, the following links should
be consulted:
Lori Ricigliano of the University of Puget Sound has an excellent guide.
Esther Grassian of the UCLA College Library has developed another site,
Thinking
Critically about World Wide Web Resources.
Randy Bass, Director of the American Studies Crossroads Project, has
developed a lexicon
for site evaluation.
Widener University has a useful page, as well: Teaching
Critical Evaluation Skills for WWW Resources.
UNIVERSITY
COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES has an excellent site
with links devoted to fair
use and copyright issues.
INFORMATION
ON MANUALS OF STYLE AND PROPER CITATION OF
SOURCES (Courtesy of Alan Kalish)
- For MLA and APA format, use the CSUS
OWL (Online Writing Lab)
- The University
of Wisconsin Writing Handbook does all of the following styles:
American Political Science Association (APSA)
American Psychological Association (APA)
Chicago/Turabian
Council of Biology Editors (CBE)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Numbered References
GENERAL
For Internet Newcomers: Beginner's
Central
NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT
INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
PUBLIC
POLICY
PRE-LAW
AND PUBLIC LAW
STATE
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
LATIN
AMERICAN STUDIES
RUSSIA,
THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES, AND THE SOVIET UNION
CANNOT
BE CATEGORIZED
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