Researching College Tuition Costs
Class: ENG-112 - Marti Leighty
Scope ll Finding Books ll Finding Articles ll Online Search Techniques
Citing Sources ll Off-campus Access ll Need More Help?
Scope: Covers higher education tuition costs in Virginia and the United States including related Virginia legislation.
Finding Print Books:
To look for books available at JSRCC Libraries, you can search the VCCSLinc Library catalog
Sample Subject Key Words to search in catalog:
Browse books by Selected Call Number Subject Range: LB2328-2342; KF4225
Selected Books available at JSRCC:
Finding Online Books:
Provides access to over 10,000 online full-text books in a wide variety of subject areas including American history. To access off-campus, you will first need to create a NetLibrary account on a campus computer. From the NetLibrary home page, click on Create a Free Account in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
Finding Online Articles:
Newspapers - Virginia & D.C.:
With a business focus, Factiva is a product of Dow Jones that offers full text access to over 10,000 magazine, journals, leading local, national and international newspapers and news wires. It provides in-depth research on a company, industry or marketplace. In addition, about 3,000 images are added daily. Richmond Times Dispatch is covered from 1989 - . (Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
URL: http://library.vccs.edu/license-bin/linker.plx?factiva
Search Tips:
Search examples:
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, medical and reference sources, including: regional, national and international newspapers, broadcast transcripts; U.S. and international company financial information, market research, industry reports, SEC filings; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, law reviews, patents, and Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789, plus polls and surveys from the Roper Center, biographies and country and state profiles. (LexisNexis)
URL: http://library.vccs.edu/license-bin/linker.plx?xsracademic
Search Tips:
Search examples:
Journals, Magazines & Newspapers - Virginia, D.C. & United States
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals (EBSCOhost)
URL: http://library.vccs.edu/license-bin/linker.plx?ebscoa9h
Search Tips:
Search examples:
Online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full text for more than 950 journals, and includes full text for more than 81 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers. (EBSCOhost)
URL: http://library.vccs.edu/license-bin/linker.plx?ebscoehh
Search Tips:
Try an Advanced Search.
Use the asterisk (*) as the truncation symbol to pick up all forms of a root word (e.g., legislat* will find legislative, legislator, legistlators)
Find keywords in the SU Subject Terms field.
Checkmark the Full Text box under the Limit your results section to limit your results to full text articles.
Search examples:
Educational Resources Information Center database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to print editions of Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). It indexes and abstracts over 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles, as well as other related sources. Full text of ERIC Digests is also included.
URL: http://library.vccs.edu/license-bin/linker.plx?ebscoeric
Search Tips:
Try an Advanced Search.
Use the asterisk (*) as the truncation symbol to pick up all forms of a root word (e.g., legislat* will find legislative, legislator, legistlators)
Find keywords in the SU Descriptors field.
Checkmark the Full Text box under the Limit your results section to limit your results to full text articles.
Search examples:
If you have the citation of an article, how to obtain the full text?
Serial Solutions - check for the availability of electronic and print full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles via JSRCC Libraries.
Check local libraries
For more information, check:
http://teach.jsr.vccs.edu/library/researchguide/stepthree.htm#ILLarticle
Selected Web Sites:
Citing Sources:
To learn how to compile your Works Cited list in MLA, please check:
http://teach.jsr.vccs.edu/library/assistance/citation.htm
Need more help?
Visit the reference desks at JSRCC Libraries or Ask a librarian@JSRCC!
Created on 9/22/08. Last updated on 9/26/08.