“My students are always kind of surprised to learn about what they have missed, what they haven't been paying attention to all their lives.”
Natural Sciences Professor Laura Alexander
student services @ CSC library
Resources | Research Help | Reading
Library Help libguide everything you ever wanted to know about the library and how to use it!
Resources
Academic Writing
CSC Academic Development Center
Online Writing Lab OWL at Purdue (includes APA, Chicago, MLA citation styles)
Citation Machine for APA and MLA styles
APA style.org Citing electronic resources in APA style
ASA Style Guide Style guide for American Sociological Association
Searching the Internet
Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web (USC)
Web Directories
Created and maintained by humans, websites are selected and sorted into categories. Browse here when starting your research to find useful search terms and an idea of what's available on your topic.
Open Directory Project the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web.
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.
Internet Public Library
Librarians' Internet Index
Search Engines
Use "spiders" to "crawl" the web, searching for key words in web page titles, headers, or entire documents. Google is a very popular search engine, try some of these for different results.
Northern Light Business-oriented specialty search engine
Intelways a meta-search engine with comprehensive set of search channels organized into different categories
Environment Web Directory A web directory that focuses on environmental and health issues
Research Help
The Reference consultants at the library are here to help you at any stage of the research process, from defining your topic, to finding scholarly resources, to figuring out citation styles.
We are available during the school year until 9pm Sunday through Thursday, until 5pm on Fridays and Saturdays. For detailed hours, see the Library FAQs.
You may drop-in or schedule an appointment with Wende, Landon, Sondra or Carrie by calling the Reference desk at the library x3687.
The library offers an online tutorial on Blackboard or click here to download it. Please call the reference desk for more information
Recommended Reads
Have you checked out the CSC Recommended Reads Shelf yet? Come in and take a look at the books CSC students, faculty and staff have enjoyed for recreational reading! We'd love to hear from you -- let us know what book is your latest favorite, and we'll add it to the shelf!
