Finding Sources - Assignment | Art Museum Final Project (McGinley) - Research Guides at Lone Star College

Scholarly Articles

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Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields. (pronounced jay-store)
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Full text of 285 journals in literature, history, international/cultural studies, and other fields within the humanities and social sciences.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.

News Articles

New York Times: Subscription Access This link opens in a new window
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Find both news and reviews as well as access to historical NY Times issues dating back to 1851.

First time user: To get access, you need to first register for an NYT account.
1. Click the link. You will have to enter your LSC library barcode.
2. Select Create Account and complete registration fields. Use your LSC email address!
3. Once you have an account, you may access NYTimes.com and NYT mobile apps like any subscriber, or go through this link but select "log in."

Note: Site passes will expire after 365 days. To renew, you will have to activate a new pass by repeating this process.

If Google Chrome shows a warning about this link, hit Ignore. You must use the proxy to get the special access.
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Selected full-text from 30 US national and international newspapers and 200 regional papers, plus TV & radio news transcripts.
US Major Dailies (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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US Major Dailies provides access to The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. The content is available by 8 a.m. each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.

E-Books

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Search complete e-books. Read in browser, or create an account to download books to various devices.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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Over 100,000 e-book titles covering a full range of academic topics. General reference works are also included.

Careers in Museums

O*Net Online
(Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration) Is a primary source of occupational information. It offers hundreds of standardized descriptors of skills, knowledge, tasks, occupational requirements, and worker abilities, interests and values that employers use to build job descriptions.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
(Bureau of Labor Statistics) Find information on hundreds of jobs such as earnings, working conditions, job prospects, training, education, and more.

Websites

Research means more than just Googling some likely terms and picking something easy off the first page of results. Consider:

Besides keywords, there are an estimated 200 factors that affect Google's page rankings, including:

sites paying to promote their pages,
what computer and browser you're using,
when the site was last updated,
how the site is structured,
what other people have clicked on or linked to,
and even what kind of pages you've searched for in the past.

Notice that "accuracy" or "reliability" don't make the list.

You can streamline the quality of your Google searches by focusing on government (.gov) and education (.edu) domains in your results.

.gov is the most strict to register -- non-government entities can't get it!
.edu is mostly universities, but you'll sometimes come across some K-12 entities with this domain.
- The big thing to watch out for is that you're not finding a student paper or project that's been posted on the university domain. Presumably their work is pretty good since it's being shown off publicly, but undergrads are not yet academic experts in their fields (sorry).
.org is somewhat reliable, but it's barely a step above a .com in many cases -- it doesn't take much to form an "organization" to register this domain.

Google has some advanced search commands to make this quicker. Just add site:___ to your search! E.g. site:loc.gov or even just site:.edu. Try it below!

Accessing the Databases

Access online library materials through the library databases!

To access the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your 14-digit library barcode or your LSC email/password.

Don't have a barcode but want one? Request a barcode number online.

Discovery Search Search (nearly) all the library collections from one place, including articles, books and e-books, videos, and more.
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You can search without signing in, but once you click to access something, you'll be prompted to use your library barcode number or your LSC username/password.
A-Z Database List Sort & filter by subject and content types to find the specific collection you need.

Assignment | Art Museum Final Project (McGinley): Finding Sources