SOC 0000: Gomez Scholars  

Welcome to college level research Gomez Scholars! This guide will assist you in finding scholarly and creditable information to research your assigned activist. At the college level, it is important to:

• Identify the sources of information you use (you've got reference sources, books, journals, web resources to choose from!)
  
• Critically evaluate that information
• Cite your sources properly

The Library has access to tons of research resources you can’t access via Google, or other web search engines, so this guide will focus on what the Library can offer you.

College research combines library resources (which includes print and electronic resources available from the Library) and creditable sources found on the open Internet.

The difference between web resources found on general Internet (through Google) and the Library's electronic resources found on its website, is the Library pays to access specialized databases that making searching for information easier. Most of the Library's electronic resources will not be found through general web searching.

Courtsey of Unshelved by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes, published on June 30, 2007.