Citing Sources
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HS117: WORLD HISTORY 1500 - present Prof. Rudin
To help you complete your "PERSIA" book review assignment, the sources that were covered in the library instruction session are listed here. If you need more assistance, please do not hesitate to stop by the Reference Desk in Germantown, or ask a librarian over the phone or by e-mail. Books: Finding Books in the Library Catalog Books on World History are in the section labeled "D." Books on World History are organized by geography first, and then chronologically by time period. You can do a general keyword search in the Library catalog, and then limit to the Germantown campus. If you get too many irrelevant results, try searching your topics by Subject Keyword. You will still be able to limit to the Germantown campus. Search types with an asterisk, such as "*Subject contains" cannot be limited to one
campus. If you find books on other campuses, you can have them sent to
Germantown by filling out an
online request form. Authors: Checking Author Credentials
You can search for background information on your historical time period and geographic region in any of the library's databases of journal articles.
For background information or current information on current topics, newspapers are another source of information. You can find the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Baltimore Sun in the ProQuest Newspapers database. For historical background of your current topic paper, you can search an online archive of the Historical New York Times from 1850 to 2004 and the Historical Washington Post from 1877 to 1991.
Information posted on Web pages has no guarantee that it is current, reliable, credible, and free from bias. If you want to use information from a Web page, be sure to check the elements covered in the library's self-guided tutorial on Evaluating Information from the World Wide Web. If you need general background information, the library has posted links to reliable Ancient History and General History web sites on the library Web page under "Academic Subjects Web Guides." The Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore has put together a list of credible sources on the topic: "How Did They Live: Exploring Daily Life Throughout History." Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of another person without giving them credit. This makes it appear that you are presenting the words or ideas as your own. To avoid plagiarism, always cite the source where you found your information. If you are unsure about what plagiarism is and how to avoid it, you can take the library's self-guided tutorial, Plagiarism: What it is and how to avoid it.If you are unsure about the correct citation form for your books, databases, and journal articles, the library has free packets giving examples in both of the standards formats, MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Psychological Association). We also have handouts for students on the Library Web page.
The librarians are here to save you time and make your research experience less stressful. The four Germantown librarians together have done many, many research papers and are happy to talk to you about it at any stage of your assignment. You don't have to come in to the library. You can ask a question in any one of the four ways mentioned on the AskUs page. |
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Web page created by Nancy Nyland, Librarian, Germantown Campus Library
Last Revised: 02/14/2008 [nmn]