This document provides an overview of new features and resources available through the CSULB library website. The main points are: 1. The most important links are now under a large search box replacing the old library catalog. 2. Users can now access items from every CSU campus through the website. 3. Library authentication no longer requires a separate password and instead uses users' Beach ID. 4. Databases like SocIndex, PsycInfo and ERIC that contain articles relevant to sociology and other disciplines are available through the OneSearch tool.

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2. HOME PAGE
NEW LIBRARY
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3. What’s new?
1. Most important links are under big
search box
2. Big search box replaces our old
library catalog
3. You can now get items from every
single CSU Campus

4. No more
Library
Password!
Library
now uses
Beach ID

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6. Contains the databases: SocIndex, Sociological Abstracts, Psycinfo and ERIC
ONESEARCH
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8. Think of terms and variables that
characterize your thesis topic.
Think about what discipline in addition to
sociology would research your topic.

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10. Look at the references of a qualitative article
Add these keywords: ethnography, case studies, observation, interviews
or focus groups, perceptions, phenomenological, experiences narratives

11. Narrows a search
Both terms appear in same record
Terms have different meanings
example: infidelity AND culture
AND
OR
Broadens a search
Either term may appear in record
Terms have similar meanings
example: adultery OR cheating

12. Use this to look for root endings.
For example: interview* looks
for interviews, interviewing,
interviewer, etc.

13. cUse this to search for
phrases. For example:
“race relations”

14. Impact of immigration status on student activism
TOPIC
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15. “undocumented students” and narratives and civil rights*
protest* or resist* and undocumented and youth
immigration and students and activism

16. Let’s
Practice.

17. Common Citation Errors.
1. Part of the citation is in ALL CAPS
2. Every Word Of The Article Title Is Capitalized
3. The journal title is not italicized
4. The ending page number for your article is missing
5. There is no hanging indent
Before

18. Fixing the Errors.
1. Change any words that are all caps
2. Make the appropriate words lower case
3. Italicize the Journal Title
4. Look at the PDF of your document and find the
ending page number
5. Create a hanging indent
After

19. Ctrl+ T
Creates paragraphs with
hanging indents in
Microsoft Word. For mac
use Command + T

20. BeachReach
Get It @ CSULB

21. Click on Get it @ CSULB
IF THERE IS NO FULL TEXT

22. Arrives in about 48 hours
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