Jacobs Library

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Radek article:
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles  by Emily Martin
Signs, Vol. 16, No. 3. (Spring, 1991), pp. 485-501
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Online Library Catalog

      My Account in the online Library Catalog
     How to renew books online
     How to interlibrary loan a book
     Pro-con Series available at Jacobs Library
          Opposing Viewpoints
        Current Controversies
        Taking Sides
             To determine which books in each of these series IVCC owns, click on "Library Catalog" from the library's website.  From the "Quick Search" screen that opens, type in the series title in quotation marks.  Example:  "taking sides"  Click "Search".  The hit list will contain all of the titles Jacobs Library own in that series.

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Citing your sources

      NoodleBib -citation generator
     NoodleBib Tutorial
     Tips for citing Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center using NoodleBib.
     Using NoodleBib to cite Gale resources originally published in a book  Use this tutorial to cite any resource that was originally published in a book and is reprinted in another book. NoodleBib screen shots are included. This tutorial can also be used for Opposing Viewpoints, Current Controversies, and Taking Sides series when the information was originally published in a book.
      Using NoodleBib to cite Gale resources originally published in a magazine or journal   Use this tutorial to cite any resource that was originally published in a magazine or journal and reprinted in a book.  NoodleBib screen shots are included.  This tutorial can also be used for Opposing Viewpoints, Current Controversies, and Taking Sides series when the information was originally published in a magazine or journal.
     Citing Gale resources
     MLA style  (how to cite web pages added 10/22/2004)
     APA style
      APA Style Guide to Electronic References
      Landmarks Son of Citation Machine - try this website if you need just one or two citations.

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Business information and Company profiles

     PowerPoint presentation on searching  for Company Profiles using the database Business Source Elite available through EBSCOhost. 

     PowerPoint presentation on searching for business information online using LexisNexis.


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Citation Linker

Do you have a citation for a magazine or journal article and would like to know if any of the databases IVCC subscribes to has it?  Click the link to Citation Linker and fill in the form with as much of the information as you can provide.  The Citation Linker will search all of our databases for you.  If the article is not available full text in any of our databases, an interlibrary loan form will be provided so you can request the article through our Interlibrary Loan Department.

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Topic Ideas

         "Best Information on the Net" -St. Ambrose University
       "Hot Paper Topics" - Northwest Missouri State U.
       Topic ideas using Government Resources - be patient, page
       is very slow to load but worth the wait.  University of
       Louisville
       "General Paper Topics" - Idaho State University
       "ElectraGuide" with Topic-O-Rama
       Access World News - from the left column under Current
       Events click on Hot Topics.  This is updated monthly and
       will provide a summary of each topic and the search terms
       to use to find articles about it.
       Facts on File  Click on a tab for each of the following
       sections:  World News Digest, Issues & Controversies, and
       Today's Science.  Each section will have its own link to
       "Need a Research Topic?' on the upper right on the screen. 

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Maps

       Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection from the University of Texas at Austin.  This collection includes historical and thematic maps.
       Access World News - scroll to the bottom of the left hand column to NewsBank Maps.  This is a collection of world, country, continent, region and state maps in 3 views – political, physical, and black/white without text.

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SFX  - FAQs

Magazine or Journal?