Transcript Constitutional History Research Techniques

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Use these Research
Guides:
› Evaluating
Resources
› Finding Reviews
› Identify Scholarly
Books
› Identify Scholarly
Periodicals
Search Solomon Advanced
Easily indentify Biographies of United
States Supreme Court Justices
 Easily obtain information on Supreme
Court issues, themes, decisions
 Use the Search Solomon Advanced,
Search Databases and online Subject
Directories (Web Resources)
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Search Solomon Advanced
 Last name and biography in “Subject”
field
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› (first name if it’s very unique, e.g. thurgood)
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Also use, supreme court and biography
in “Subject” field
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Known by name
Exact Phrase
In the Title field
OR
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Last name First Name
Exact Phrase
In the Subject field
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American National Biography (Oxford
University Press)
› United States only, unless significantly
impacted the country
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Biography in Context (Gale)
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Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford
University Press)
› United Kingdom only, unless significantly
impacted the country
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Use Subject Directories created and
maintained by librarians, scholars and
specialists in the field.
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From the library Web site select “Help
with Research”, then select “Identifying
Scholarly Web sites”
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Academic Info Subject Guides – Authoritative and useful links and resources
within a specific subject both hardcopy and softcopy
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Complete Planet – A deep Web directory of dynamic searchable databases
and specialty search engines
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Digital Librarian – An annotated directory providing Internet resources
maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York
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INFOMINE – University-level virtual library of Internet resources.
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Internet Archive - A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in
digital form including texts, audio, moving images, software and archived web
pages.
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Invisible Web Directory – Companion site to “The Invisible Web: Finding Hidden
ipl2 – An annotated collection of high quality Internet resources hosted by Drexel
University's College of Information Science & Technology, and a consortium of
colleges and universities with programs in information science.
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Resource Shelf – Contributing editors find high quality Internet resources and
provide comments and observations about trends on the Web
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Scout Report Archives – Contains critical annotations of carefully selected
Internet sites
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Virtual Library – VL is the oldest catalogue of the Web, pages are compiled by
experts in their fields and are widely recognized as being amongst the highestquality guides to particular sections of the Web
Issues in History
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United states constitution [contains all
query words] – Subject
› Could also use Title field instead of Subject
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Constitutional history [is exact] – Subject
AND it with the keyword issues
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DDC = 342.73; LC = JK146
Librarians are your friends!
 See Miss T.
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› 661-362-2201
› [email protected]
› Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 11:00 a.m. 8:00 p.m.; Fri.
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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No special grace given to those who
work harder rather than smarter.