ENG 106: Into the Wild

Find the library website

• Go to: http://library.miami.edu

Find the Richter stacks

• Go to the second floor of Richter Library

• If you take the elevator, turn right when you get off

• If you take the stairs, walk to the elevators and take a left

• Walk past the microforms cabinets and the bound journals; the stacks elevators will be on your right

Get research assistance

• Go to the 1^st floor Research & Assistance Desk OR
• Go to the libraries website

• Click on Ask-A-Librarian—you can email or call us OR

• Consultations—look at the list of subject librarians and email the appropriate librarian

Hello and welcome to the English 106 Research Guide!  This guide is intended to help you with English 106 and to provide a jumping-off point for your research.

If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email!

• Gale In Context: Biography
  Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Biography merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
• PhilPapers : Philosophical Research Online
  PhilPapers is a comprehensive index of philosophy books and articles. PhilPapers offers unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums. 
• Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
  Global Newsstream covers national and leading regional newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post. International coverage includes The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Jerusalem Post, and El Pais.
• ProQuest Research Library
  ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
• PsycINFO
  Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, in behavioral science and mental health. Citations and summaries date back to early 1800s; journal coverage from 1887 to present. From the American Psychological Association.
• Sociological Abstracts
  Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts research literature published worldwide in journals and other serial publications. Social Planning/Policy Development (SOPODA) is included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, housing, the environment and other social issues.

Visit the library catalog, which is linked of the Libraries website: Library Catalog
The search tab labeled “Catalog” will search the library catalog. Enter your keywords and go!
            Finding books on a topic
            To find books on a particular topic, you should perform a KEYWORD search
                        Sample search terms include:
                        “global warming” and biofuels
                        “stem cells”
                        Autism and (vaccine* or immuniz*)
 Hints: put phrases in double quotations; use an asterisk to truncate a term—organiz* will search for organize, organizing, and organization.
            Finding books by an author
            To find books written by a particular author, you should perform an AUTHOR search
                        Sample search terms include:
                        Hemingway Ernest
                        Homer 
 
REMEMBER: The library catalog does not contain journal articles. Rather, it can tell you whether or not we have a print or electronic subscription to a particular journal. To look for specific articles if you already have a citation, go to the Citation Linker, available on the How to: Find an article from a citation tab.

• ProQuest Research Library
  ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
• Gale In Context: Biography
  Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Biography merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
• Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
  Global Newsstream covers national and leading regional newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post. International coverage includes The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Jerusalem Post, and El Pais.
• PsycINFO
  Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, in behavioral science and mental health. Citations and summaries date back to early 1800s; journal coverage from 1887 to present. From the American Psychological Association.
• Sociological Abstracts
  Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts research literature published worldwide in journals and other serial publications. Social Planning/Policy Development (SOPODA) is included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, housing, the environment and other social issues.