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Books!
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TIP: When you look for a particular book on the shelf, make sure to browse the shelf and nearby shelves for related books. Take your time! Open the books! |
Books, journals, articles, videos and more can be located using UMA WorldCat. To find books at UMass, start with the general search box on the library home page, www.library.umass.edu.
What floor are my books at? Use the call number directory to find out.
Photo: Upward Bound student in 2015
Use Care When Relying on Web Sites
Remember to evaluate
web pages for accuracy, authority, currency and coverage before using information you find there unless the web page is recommended by your professor, a librarian or other individual you know and trust. Below are links to web sites that will help you do this quickly and effectively.
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Evaluating Web Sites (U. of California Berkeley)Web page checklist
Databases for Research
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America: History & Life This link opens in a new windowJournal articles, dissertations, and book reviews, many in full text, relating to United States and Canadian history and prehistory, 1954-present.
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Black Studies Center This link opens in a new windowCombines key indices (Schomburg, IIBP, etc) to scholarship and primary sources in Afro-American studies.
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ERIC This link opens in a new window
Education journal articles (EJ references) and ERIC documents (ED references), 1967-present. EDs before 1997 are requestable using the Microforms Request page and usable in the Microforms Vewing Room in the LC.
A free version of ERIC is available for all to use at this link: https://eric.ed.gov/.
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Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic communities in the United States. In several languages, 1965-present.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowUse to access many UMass online journal subscriptions.
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Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) This link opens in a new windowArticles from scholarly journals on Latin America & the Caribbean, the US-Mexico border area, and U.S. Latinos, 1970-present.
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowPublished by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed journal literature in psychology, behavioral science and mental health - 2,500 journal titles indexed - 2.8 million records - 1887 to present.
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Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new windowArticles and dissertations on human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development.
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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowReferences to scholarly journal articles, dissertations, and conference papers on sociology and related disciplines, 1960-present.
Tip for databases
After
you've run a search, use the 
button to retrieve articles or to be
taken directly to the Interlibrary Loan request page, so you can order the article
if UMass does not have it.
Spotlight on:
Online Books!
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Radical Equations
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Call Number: E184.A1 M7 2001
Access this e-book and many others in ebrary, one of the Library's e-book collections.
Learn about journals and journal artices!
What's a peer-reviewed journal?
Many of our journals are peer-reviewed. If you don't know what that means or why it matters, watch this video.
