Using Linfield Libraries' Resources

These tips are designed to help you use the Linfield Libraries Homepage successfully and efficiently to find, obtain, and evaluate the resources you need for your research. Questions?

Library Class Pages- course specific research help.

1. Find a book 2. Find an article 3. Search the Internet 4. Get items 5. Evaluate 6. Cite

1. To find a book, video, journal title, map, etc.

  • WildCat (Linfield) - finding the materials in the Linfield libraries
  • Summit - combined catalog of Orbis Cascade Alliance academic libraries in OR & WA - search & order online
  • WorldCat (Worldwide) - world list - order through ILL direct link in the database
  • E-Books and Other Library Catalogs - links to electronic books and other library catalogs

Note: DCE students go to Summit Borrowing to learn how to use Summit

2. To find an article

  • EBSCOhost - many full text articles - multidisciplinary and subject specific periodical databases- includes PsycINFO and CINAHL
  • Lexis-Nexis - full text - major newspapers for news, also business, legal, medical, and reference information
  • Databases - list of databases (alphabetical or subject)- many with citations or citations & abstracts, including Sociological Abstracts and Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index; some full text including JSTOR - full text archive of arts & sciences journals
  • Periodicals@Linfield - includes newspapers, magazines, and journals available at Linfield College either in the library or in an online periodical database or through the publishers web site.

Note: If you are trying to access article databases or WorldCat from off campus, you will need to go to access and delivery(for DCE students)

3. Searching the Internet

4. OK, now I've found the items, how do I get them?

5. How to evaluate the print books & articles and web pages I have found.

6. How to cite my sources and avoid plagiarism?

tutorial created by Carol McCulley: updated 9/06