Away for the summer but still need to: Build your curriculum? Brush up on the latest pedagogical practices? Browse current contents of the journals in your field? Check out the Faculty Digital Library (do log in to vpn.sps.edu first, when … Continued
Bibliographic Mining What is it? Bibliographic Mining is studying the bibliographies of the items you are consulting in your research & then locating and utilizing those same cited sources. For example, you might mine the bibliography of a: reference article, … Continued
In the Third, Fourth or Fifth Form? Finishing your research paper or just beginning? The library website has research guides specifically crafted to assist with each form’s discreet research assignment. Come visit your form’s research guide & do get in … Continued
From time to time Fourth Form students find helpful quotes located in something other than the quote’s original source. This is referred to as an indirect source. When parenthetically citing an indirect source, do give credit to the indirect source. … Continued
ebrary, a major supplier of Library eBooks (about 85,000 at the time of this post) is now automatically co-searched when using the Proquest periodical database. Thousands of magazine, newspaper and journal articles from the 1800’s to today, searched simultaneously with … Continued