An Introduction.. - Honors Project Seminar - IDST - 2019 - Sciences - LibGuides at College of San Mateo Library

Develop Your Topic

Information Competency Tutorials
Help throughout the research process - developing a topic, finding search terms, evaluating sources, citing.. By CSM Librarians (with help from CLIP - the Cooperative Library Instruction Project).

Oxford English Dictionary
The most authoritative source on the English language, with a focus on etymology and historical usage.
Britannica Online Academic Edition
An online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica

Use the TABS ABOVE ↑ to open pages with different resources:

Books and eBooks:

Articles and Databases:

information on how to select and use CSM Library databases - which contain articles, movie clips and images
explanation about scholarly articles

Web Resources:

Evaluating Resources:

Citing Resources:

visual guide to deciding on when to cite,
a short answer to "Why cite?", and
links to resources that will help you create citations and "works cited" list (also called "bibliography" or "reference list")
information about annotated bibliography

OneSearch
OneSearch allows you to search for full text ebooks and articles in all the CSM Library databases, and for book records of books in print. (A book record contains information about the book: author, title, etc. - and where the book is available.)
Off-campus and on-campus access
Information about accessing resources on and off-campus
e-Book
electronic or online book
Periodical
Periodical is published with a fixed interval between the issues or numbers, for example: newspaper (daily), magazine or journal (weekly or monthly). Periodicals contain articles.