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You'll learn more about this in EN 112, but here's an advance look at a strategy and resources that will be useful in your information-seeking.
Overview Sources clarify unfamiliar terms or ideas, and usually provide a list or bibliography of other recommended sources. They help to narrow a big topic or give you topic ideas.
Finding Sources include databases and indexes that can help you locate subject and topic specific sources such as journals and newpaper articles and books.
- KnightOwl: Search tool to help locate databases by subject.
- Vogel Catalog: Find books and more at Vogel Library.
Fact Sources are additional reference materials that provide definitions, statistics, timetables, biographical summaries, literary terms, and other types of factual information.
- Compare Magazines and Journals
- E.S.A: Earned Scholarly Average (Evaluating Books, Magazines, and Journals)
- E.S.A.H: Earned Scholarly Average for the Humanities
- V.E.S.A: Virtual Earned Scholarly Average
- V.E.S.A.H:Virtual Earned Scholarly Average for the Humanities
- Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
- Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources
Gateways and Portals are research tools that guide you to recommended web sites.
- Waverly Public Library Catalog: Checkout is available with Wartburg ID.
- Cedar Valley Library Consortium (UNI, Waterloo & Cedar Falls Public, Hawkeye)
- SILO: State of Iowa Library Catalog: Resources in Iowa Libraries.
- WorldCat: OCLC's catalog of library holdings worldwide.
