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Course guide for eng 110
This guide provides resources to support the ENG 110 class and assignments. Navigate through the pages in the left menu to learn more about how to get started with a topic and a research question (Research Basics), how to choose the best databases, and what terms to search. Use the Citation Styles and Citation Tools pages to help you with citing your sources. There is also information on creating an annotated bibliography in the Assignment Help section.
Contact a Librarian or a Research Assistant through the LibChat feature (chat bubble icon on any Library web page in the lower right corner). Also, visit the Library's FAQ page for answers to common questions
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Best Databases
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new windowAcademic journal and specialized magazine articles in the humanities published after 1984.
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Literary Reference Source Plus This link opens in a new windowThousands of full-text poems, short stories, synopses, critical essays, literary journals, reference books and author biographies.
Google Scholar Advantages & Disadvantages
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
| It is familiar and relatively simple to use, much like Google. | Its coverage is wide-ranging but not comprehensive. It can be a research source but should not be the only source you use. |
| It allows users to find a wide variety of materials including articles, books, "grey literature" like conference proceedings on a vast number of topics. | It does not provide the criteria for what makes its results "scholarly". Results often vary in quality, and it is up to the researcher to determine which of the results are suitable for their purposes. |
| It allows you to see articles related to the one that interests you, how many times an article has been cited and by whom, and provides citations for articles in several styles. | It does not allow users to limit results to either peer reviewed or full text materials or by discipline. |
| It can display links to articles and books held through Zondervan. Google Scholar allows you to save both citations and articles to read later. | It does not provide notice of when its materials are updated. |
| Its citation tracker can be difficult to use and inaccurate. |
Modified from: https://libguides.ecu.edu/c.php?g=89754&p=656912#:~:text=Disadvantages%20of%20using%20Google%20Scholar%3A,makes%20its%20results%20%22scholarly%22.
What do Librarians have to do with it?
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