Print Resources:
Below are just some of the print resources available to you. Some of the resources are circulating and some may be found in the Reference Collection, located on the 3rd floor of the Potter Library. What's important about the Reference Collection? It can help you fine-tune an idea in addition to pointing you to additional sources that you may find useful. These additional sources are found in the bibliography and/or in the "For Further Reading" section at the end of a passage. Don't pass this important collection by! Suggested Print Sources:
| Call Number
| Beyond appearance : a new look at adolescent girls*
| HQ798 .B43 1999 | | Teen violence : a global view* |
HV9069 .T373 2001 | | The contested boundaries of American public health* | RA395.A3 C732 2008
| Eating Disorders and Obesity
| REF RC552 .E18 E2825 2002
| | Children, adolescents, and the media | REF HQ784.M3 S78 2009 | | Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media | REF HQ784.M3 E53 2007 | | Homelessness handbook | REF HV4493 .H68 2007 | Encyclopedia of homelessness
| REF HV4493 .E53 2004
| The challenge of slums
| REF HV4028 .C48 2003
| Encyclopedia of advertising
| REF HF5803 .A38 2003
| Encyclopedia of gender and information technology
| REF HD6060.6 .E53 2006
| Encyclopedia of sex and gender
| REF HQ16 .E52 2007
| The Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, & sexuality through history
| REF HQ21 .G67125 2008 v.6
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Encyclopedia of adult development | REF BF724.5 .E53 1993 | | Statistical abstract of the United States | REF
HA202 .U5 |
*Indicates the book is part of the circulating collection HINT!- Want a tip for search for print materials?
- Call numbers mean something! Books are housed by subject area and the call number indicates what area the item covers.
- Also, it you find a great reference source, write down the letters and the first string of numbers (ex. HQ4493). Then try looking in that area in the circulating section. You may find more great materials!
- Want an example?
Electronic Resources:
Below are selected databases to try with your research. The Library offers many databases to pick from, but these are a little more subject specific. Remember, its good to try a few databases out when researching and not limit yourself to one.
Suggested Electronic Resources
| | Lexis-Nexis Academic (a.k.a. Academic Universe)
| Provides company and legal information as well as access to many worldwide news publications.
| Sociological Abstracts
| A great source for a sociological approach to research. Limited full-text, but click on "check availability at Ramapo" to see if the Library has full-text access in another database or in Print.
| Proquest Central
| Allows you to search many Proquest databases, which includes Proquest ewspapers (an index of many many news publications) and Psychology Journals.
| Medline
| MEDLINE® provides
authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and
much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE
uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree
hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over
4,800 current biomedical journals. | Alt-Health Watch
| A full text and image database covering the full spectrum of
Alternative Medicine subject areas, Alt HealthWatch focuses on
complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and
wellness. | CINAHL
| CINAHL,provides indexing for over 1,835 journals from the
fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than
1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Full text material includes nearly 70 journals plus legal cases,
clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research
instruments and clinical trials. | Communication and Mass Media
| Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. | Education Journals
| Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database covers almost 400 leading journals in the field. | JStor Complete
| JSTOR complete covers archival full-text scholarly articles in
the arts and sciences, biological sciences, humanities, social
sciences, mathematics, ecology, botany, music, business, and statistics. | GenderWatch
| GenderWatch is a full text database of unique and diverse publications
that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases,
GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on
the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles. | Online Statistical Sources
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Finding Government Documents in the Catalog:- FOR SEARCHING IN OUR LIBRARY: You might want to limit your search to
- Online material (listed under Quick limit in the catalog)
- or to the Documents Without Shelves collection (in the catalog under the location option within the More Limits link)
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