2. Services
Computers/wireless access
Pay for print/copy
Online help pages
Ask-a-Librarian – online chat service
Interlibrary Loan – obtain resources from
other libraries
3. Library Catalog
books
e-books
audio books
materials from other Florida
community colleges
materials placed on reserve by your
professor
4. Library Databases
FKCC has access to over 95 databases - all
free of charge to students with full text and
multimedia.
We can help you select appropriate databases
to use for research.
5. Your professor asked you to use scholarly
articles.
What are scholarly articles?
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/peabody/t
utorials/scholarlyfree/
6. Still need to find resources on
the Internet?
Be sure to evaluate your sources
7. Accuracy
Is the information accurate?
Can you verify the information in another source?
Does the page cite well-known sources or
authorities?
8. Authority
Is the author identified?
Is there reason given to assume that the author is
an authority in the subject?
Does the author provide contact information?
If the author is identified as a corporation or
organization is there information available about
the reliability of the group?
9. Currency
Is the information current?
When was the web site created? When was it last
updated?
Are the links working?
Point of View/Bias
Is the primary purpose of the site advertising or
is it informational?
Does the information contradict something you
already know or have learned from another
source?
Does the author have an agenda or trying to sway
his/her audience?
10. Google search:
Smoking AND Cancer AND Statistics
http://www.smokinglungs.com/
versus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smoking
.html
12. If you need help with research paper style and
citation guides, you can visit our Research
Blog:
http://fkcclibraryresearch.blogspot.com/
13. FKCC Library web site:
http://library.fkcc.edu
This
Power Point will be available on the
FKCC Library Research Blog:
http://fkcclibraryresearch.blogspot.com