Library Research Guide


University Writing

Librarian for this subject

Anice Mills
Undergraduate Services Librarian

amills@columbia.edu

205 Butler Library
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027

Telephone: (212) 854-0520


This research guide identifies library resources to support your research in the University Writing course.  If you need research help, feel free to contact me directly. I'd be glad to set up an appointment with you.

See: Resources for University Writing Students

Check out:  Undergraduate Insider's Guide to the Libraries

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Background Information and Facts

Find Books, Films, Music, E-Books

  • CLIO
    Columbia's online catalog for books, journals, films and music.
    Search Tip:
     Use Quick Limit to find films or music; re-sort titles by newest first.
  • WorldCat
    Search for books and journals in major library collections around the world.
  • Borrow Direct
    A borrowing service offered by the university libraries of Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, Harvard and MIT. It is designed to allow students, faculty and staff to request (and receive in four days) books directly from each other's collections.

 

Find Articles and Reviews

Search Tip: Click  in search results to get full-text.

How to evaluate the credibility of an online source. 

  • ProQuest
    Use the suggested topics to search by subject.
  • JSTOR
    Scholarly articles from more than 1,500 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
  • EBSCOhost Research Databases
    Select All to search across a wide selection of scholarly databases.
  • Google Scholar
    Useful for broad searches of scholarly literature. Click Preferences option to link directly to Columbia's collection of e-journals.
  • Web of Science
    Provides access to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index. Click E-Link to see full text.
  • Project Muse
    Coverage typically starts with journal issues after 2000.
  • LexisNexis Academic
    Articles from newspapers, wire services; law reviews, case law, government documents.

 

Need help citing sources? See Citation Guides and Resources. For help writing your paper, contact the Writing Center.