For nearly twenty-five years A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students has helped students avoid the pitfalls
of conducting library research for term papers and theses. Updated and revised, the sixth edition shows undergraduates
how to use their research time efficiently and how to locate and evaluate material available from electronic databases
and the Internet.
Table of Contents
1. Conducting research in an electronic environment
2. Using library catalogs
Searching your library's catalog
Moving beyond your library's catalog
3. Searching bibliographic databases
4. Searching the Web
5. Finding reviews
6. Using contextual primary sources
7. Finding supplementary information : other reference sources
Biographical sources
In quest of quotations
Facts from dictionaries and handbooks
8. One-stop shopping
9. Managing citations
10. Guides to research in literature
App Selective bibliography of reference sources for English and American literature
