This EN 102 Guide will help you navigate and find credible Library resources. Use the side menu to navigate to relevant sources and search tips!
To get you started on your research, here is a list of top library resources for First-Year Writing students:
Credo Reference is a library subscription database that provides access to thousands of articles from reference sources such as encyclopedias and dictionaries. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology. You can use these types of sources to gain knowledge on a subject and to help you focus or narrow your topic.
For additional information on OneSearch and how to use it, please view our webpage with How-To Videos.
Credo Reference is a library database that allows you to search full-text, credible reference sources - like dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks.
Think of Credo as the library's version of Wikipedia.
While you should never cite from Credo directly, you can use Credo to:
After searching for your topic in Credo, use the Mind Map feature in the search results (pictured below) to see additional keywords and related concepts that you could use in your searching for sources.
Most Credo entries will have a Bibliography or Further Reading section that will provide a list of sources at the end of an entry.
If you see a source in the Bibliography that interests you, try searching for the full-text of that source using library tools. You could potentially read and cite one of these secondary sources (i.e. books, articles) in your college work!
Requires registration. Access to current NYTimes (excluding Cooking, The Athletic, and Crosswords) and the archive back to 1851.
Each issue of the NYT is indexed thoroughly, to provide access to not only top news stories but also detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and popular culture. Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people are indexed.
Collection of national newspapers: Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
This publication's detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need. Each issue is indexed thoroughly, so they have access to not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the paper. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also companies, people, products, etc.
