MIDDLESEX COUNTY COLLEGE LIBRARY

The Assignment Calculator is at U of Minnesota Libraries.

The reference sources: Child Development, The Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior, The International Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, and Psychologists and Their Theories are available online in the Gale Virtual Reference Center (under “Reference, Facts, Encyclopedias, etc. on the Library’s Homepage).

Want to get a jump-start on finding what’s available through MCC Library? Try our new 360 Search. You can search 19 of our databases plus iBistro all at once.

Or search the following individually:
Check iBistro (the Library’s book, video, DVD, etc. catalog) and PsycBooks for e-books on psychology and related topics.

For articles on psychology related topics use the principal database for psychology research, PsycInfo, on the Library’s Homepage under “Magazine, newspaper and journal articles”.

For any articles or books not available at MCC Library, use the Interlibrary Loan request forms. MCC Library will have the materials delivered here for you to use.

Other sites:
The APA Formatting and Style Guide from OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue University)

or try the University of Illinois’ Citation Styles Handbook:APA

You can also check some of the links from MCC Library’s Citation Formats Page.

If you need help in learning to use PowerPoint, check out this tutorial from University of Rhode Island, this one from Internet 4 Classrooms, or check out the list of PowerPoint tutorials available on the web, courtesy of the University of Alberta.

A grad student from U of Minnesota provides a free downloadable APA Style Sheet for MS Word for many versions of Word. Please note the librarians have not tested this software, so user beware! A different APA Style Sheet is available for Word 97, 98 and 2000. Note that to date, none of these templates are set for the new Electronic Style Manual.

Remember that the Reference Librarians are here to help!
Stop by the Reference Desk
Email us at refmcclibrary@yahoo.com
Call us at 732 906-2561 or
Post a question on this Blog.

Remember to help yourself with time management of your paper by using the Assignment Calculator.

Want to get a jump-start on finding what’s available through MCC Library? Try our new 360 Search. You can search up to 19 of our databases plus iBistro all at once.

Or search the following Library databases individually to find articles on your topic:

ABI/Inform

Business Source Premier

Lexis-Nexis

Locate Books, DVDs and videos in this Library and 27 other libraries by using iBistro.

To find items in other libraries throughout the country, use Worldcat.

Whatever we do not have in this Library can be obtained for you at no charge by using Interlibrary Loan.

On the Public Web:

Want to know how a search engine works? Look at this How Stuff Works page.

If you want some details on Google’s search algorithm, try How Google Works.

Check a few of the “human-powered” directories like the Librarian’s Index to the Internet or Infomine to locate a few credible sites on computer science topics.

Try using a different search engine like Ask or Kartoo . Try an “unusual” one like Ms Dewey, or some search engines that are still in Beta like Powerset or Hakia, or a metasearch engine like Dogpile. Want some more alternatives? Click HERE.

Take a look at the top searches for 2007. How many of these terms did you use?

Finally, take a look at the Search Engines Relationship chart.

Need more help?
Stop by the Reference Desk
Email us at refmcclibrary@yahoo.com
Call us at 732 906-2561
or
Post a question on this Blog.