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As the semester moves on, a lot of you are asking about citing your sources to make sure you don’t plagiarize accidentally. Here’s a little more on the topic.
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Looking for Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper Articles?
November 9, 2009 – 12:33 pm
Google and Yahoo are convenient, but they won’t give you access to as many high-quality newspaper, journal, and magazine articles as the HCC library databases will. Look up complete electronic versions of articles from the Houston Chronicle, New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, Time Magazine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and thousands of other publications that you would normally have to subscribe to in order to read! Often times you’ll be able to view both current articles and articles dating back several years.
Be a Better Web Searcher!
October 29, 2009 – 8:55 am
Information in libraries and in library databases has been selected by information professionals. This means that books you find in the library or articles you find in the library databases are likely to be reliable sources of information.
Not all of the information available on the World Wide Web goes through this careful selection process, however. Anyone can publish on The Web. Imagine using a website chock full of talk of alien abductions for an art history paper! Think it can’t happen to you? Read on!
