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Atkins Library has many resources and services to
assist with research at the graduate level. This site will introduce
you to selective databases and services. Guides are available in
a variety of formats, including screencasts (screen shots with audio),
WORD, PDF, and PowerPoint.
This is a work in progress.
If there are resources that are not listed but for which you would
like guides, please contact me at flmozent@uncc.edu.
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Subject Specialists are
available to assist graduate students. If you have questions regarding
library services or resources, or need assistance with research, please
contact the specialist in your area.
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Tutorials
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Web Screencast
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Research Strategies for Graduate Students
(Frada
Mozenter) - An overview on things
to consider when starting research.
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| How
to Access Electronic Resources from Off-Campus (Frada
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| How
to Find a Database (Frada
Mozenter) - This segment explains
how to find a database... if you only have a topic and if you already
know the name of the database. |
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| How
to Get the Full Text of Articles (Frada
Mozenter) - This segment explains
how to get the complete article when searching a database. |
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| How
to Request Materials from Other Libraries - Interlibrary Loan
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| Businss |
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Research for Graduate Business Students (Jeanie
Welch)
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Companies
& industries, accounting & taxation, economics & statistics,
marketing & demographics, international business, & business
information systems. |
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| Education |
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ERIC via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, CSA (Judy
Walker)
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The
primary education database via the CSA interface. |
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ERIC via EBSCO Host (Judy
Walker)
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The primary education
database via the EBSCOHost interface. |
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| Health
Care and Kinesiology |
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Medline via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (Mary
Metzger)
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A broad
range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration,
policy issues, and health care services. Produced
by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records
published in Index Medicus and corresponds in part to the printed
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Sport Discus (Mary
Metzger)
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A bibliographic database,
international in scope, covering all aspects of sport, fitness, recreation,
and related fields |
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| The
Sciences |
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The American Chemical Society Web Edition (Barbara
Tierney)
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Full
text for all journals published by the American Chemical Society.
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SciFinder Scholar (Barbara
Tierney)
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Online access to Chemical Abstracts,
Medline, CAS Registry, and CASREACT.
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SPIE Digital Library (Barbara
Tierney)
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Technical papers, journal articles,
& conference proceedings on optics & photonics.
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| Sociology |
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Sociological Abstracts (Bridgette
Sanders)
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Provides access
to resources in sociology and related disciplines. The database includes
abstracts of journal articles selected from over 2500 journals, abstracts
of conference papers presented at various sociological association
meetings, relevant dissertation listings from Dissertations Abstracts
International, enhanced bibliographic citations of book reviews, and
abstracts of selected sociology books. |
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| Legal
Resources |
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LexisNexis Academic (Lois
Stickell)
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Primary
source for legal research. Also provides access to a wide range of
news and business sources. Its coverage includes magazines, journals
and law reviews, newspapers, news transcripts, state and federal laws
and court rulings, and reference sources. |
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LexisNexis Congressional (Lois
Stickell)
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Provides access to Congressional
information, including bills, laws, regulations, reports, documents,
prints, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, and
the Congressional Record. Also includes information about members
of Congress such as biographical data, voting records, campaign
financial data and committees. Also includes legislative histories,
bills and laws as well as regulations.
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Westlaw Campus Research (Lois
Stickell)
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Federal
& state court cases; state statutes & federal statutes published
in the United States Code Annotated; federal regulations published
in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; American
Law Reports; an encyclopedia of state and federal law; & articles
from law reviews. |
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| Dissertations
/ Theses |
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Dissertation Abstracts Online / UNC Charlotte's Dissertations
& Theses (Judy
Walker)
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| Psychological
Assessment & Evaluation |
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Reviews of psychology and education
test instruments.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook (Judy
Walker)
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Tutorials
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Web of Science Database Introduction (Frada
Mozenter) - Although you can search by
topic, the power of this database is citation
searching across
disciplines.
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Citation Searching
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Searching for / by Authors
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Searching for Topics
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Register (Email Alerting
Service / RSS Feeds / EndNote Web)
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Email Alerting Service / Saved Searches
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EndNote Web
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