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 Welcome
to Pollak Library! CSUF students enrolled
in Distance Education courses have access to Library resources and services
including:
IT HELP DESK (IT = Information
Technology)
If you have questions
about accessing the Library's subscription databases (Academic Search
Premier, Factiva, etc.), call the IT Help Desk at 714-278-7777
or contact them via e-mail at
helpdesk@fullerton.edu.
How to Connect to the Library's Databases from Home
Updated March 12, 2008
Information on username and password needed to access journal article
databases.
If you have a problem accessing the
Library's databases remotely, contact the Titan Help Desk at
714-278-7777 or contact them
via e-mail at
helpdesk@fullerton.edu.
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Telephone Reference -
714-278-3284
To talk with a Reference Librarian, call during
Reference Desk hours. Please note that this is for quick questions only and
that priority is given to those physically present in the library—telephone
patrons may have to wait until a librarian is free to answer a question.
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 AskRef
If you have a research question and can wait 24 hours for a response,
at the library home page go to
Ask A Librarian, click on
Email Reference, and fill out the online
form.
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Research
Consultation Request
If you have a research
question and can wait 7 days for an answer,
at the library home page go to
Ask A Librarian, click on
Research Consultations
and fill out the online
form You will be contacted within 3 days and an appointment
will be scheduled for you within 7 days to work one-on-one with a
librarian. If you cannot come to the Fullerton campus, please indicate this
on the request form and a librarian will work with you via email.
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Chat
Reference
Chat reference is available to CSUF students, faculty, and staff. At the
library home page go to
Ask A Librarian and click on
24/7 Chat Reference. You will be able
to chat in real time with a librarian online. Although CSUF librarians
participate, your question will probably be answered by a librarian from
another CSU library or out-of state academic library.
 Connect
to
Library Catalog
SEARCH TIPS
- Start with a keyword
search rather than a subject search. For example, search Keyword: transfer pricing.
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To sort the titles so that the most recent books are at the top of the
results:
While viewing a list of records,
click on
Limit/Sort. Then click on Sort Results by Year and
then Limit/Sort.
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- To narrow your search results by an
additional term:
While viewing a list of records,
click on Limit/Sort. Then click on the down arrow next to Words in
the Author to see what additional terms can be added to your original
search..
- On the catalog record,
note the following fields:
- Imprint:
date the book was published
- Descript:
number of pages in the book
- Subject:
describes the subject content of the book
- Notes:
additional descriptive
information
- Contents:
additional
descriptive information
If you live at a distance from CSU
Fullerton, consider using resources at other libraries.
- Libraries with
Reciprocal Lending Agreements with CSUF: At the Library Home Page,
click on
Borrowing & Reserves
and then Reciprocal Borrowing.
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LibWeb—This web
site helps you find a library near you.
- Other
Libraries & Library Online Catalogs: At the Library Home Page,
click on
Find Books
and then Other Library Catalogs.
 Find
Articles
top
- To access journal and newspaper
articles from home, at the Library Home Page click on
Find Articles. Then select the subject Economics.
- After clicking on the subject Economics,
a list of databases will display.Type your search terms into the
search box to retrieve articles.
- You can access these databases from home.
When you click on a database name, you will be routed through the Campus
Portal and then to the database Web site.
 If you have a citation to
an article and need to find the full text, the following information
explains how to obtain an electronic or print version of the article.
To
determine if a journal is available electronically or in
print in Pollak Library:
- At the Library Home Page, click on
Find Journals by Title.
- In the search box, type the title.
- The results screen will indicate if the
journal is available online, in print, or both.
- If the article is available
electronically: the name(s) of databases will be listed. Click on the
database name to go to the database.
- If the article is available in print:
the journal title, call number, and the years that Pollak Library owns
will be listed. Write down the LOCATION and CALL NUMBER. Go to the 2nd Floor
North to retrieve the article from the shelves.
- If the journal is not available in any
format: there will be an option to request the article from ILLiad
(Interlibrary Loan).
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 Pollak
Library
owns copies of theses written by CSUF students.
- To view a list of recent
theses written by CSUF students in the Department of Economics, search the
Library Catalog by TITLE, click on Limit/Sort, and
then select Sort by Year:
Library Catalog title
search:
thesis economics csuf
- All CSUF theses are
shelved on 5th Floor South and all have call numbers beginning LD729.
 Full-text
newspaper and magazine articles (these will not necessarily be
scholarly but can be valuable secondary sources) are available in the
following databases:
Note:
Access these databases
from Library Home Page >>
Databases
A-Z.
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ProQuest
Newsstand
Easiest to use and
includes Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register.
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
- Omnifile (Wilson)
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Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive)
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LexisNexis
Academic
- When searching databases, start with a keywords
search and note the subject terms or descriptors. Then do
another search using those subject terms or descriptors.
- When you find a good
article or book, check the references at the end for additional
sources.
- After logging onto a
database, click on HELP and read the instructions for Basic
Searches and Advanced Searches.
- If you keep finding
citations for articles in journals that CSUF does not own,
try using full-text databases such as Academic Search Premier,
Wilson OmniFile, Wiley Interscience, Science Direct, Factiva, LexisNexis.
- When viewing an HTML
file, use your browser's EDIT/Find command to quickly locate a
keyword in the document.
- When viewing a PDF
file, use Adobe's FIND command - BINOCULARS ICON in Adobe
Menu Bar - to quickly locate a keyword in the document.
- While searching in a
subscription database (ERIC, PsycINFO), click on the HELP icon for
information on constructing effective searches.
- To open a New Window
(in Internet Explorer or Netscape):
File—New—Window
- To E-mail an article
when database does not have an e-mail feature:
- Open a new window [CTRL-N].
- Open your e-mail account
in this new window.
- Create a message
addressed to yourself.
- Go back to the database
window (in Internet Explorer, click on it in the taskbar at the bottom
of the screen), and EDIT/Select All of the text in the article,
including the bibliographic information. Click on EDIT/Copy.
- Go back to the e-mail
window (in Internet Explorer, click on the taskbar button at the bottom
of the screen) and EDIT/Paste into the e-mail message.
- Type the name of the
database in your e-mail message so that you know the source of the
article when you are citing references in your paper. SEND.
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The
following Internet resources are freely available to the general public:
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