|
Why you
need the library
Using the library at a distance
Finding
Books
Finding journal articles
Interlibrary Loan
Beyond the library
Plagiarism
Citing Sources
Help!
|
Why
you need the library in addition to the Web:
- Most published
information available in the library is not freely available on the
Web. Only a very small percentage of scholarly
information is available on the Web. People whose livelihood is
derived from researching, writing and publishing do not always give
this information away for free. Libraries purchase this information
for your use.
- Library resources
go through a review process in order to get published and through a
selection process in order to make it into the library collection. Information
on the Web does not have to go through any review or selection process.
People can put anything they want on the Web for whatever reason.
- Information in
the library is organized. While it may seem cumbersome to use library
resources compared to conducting a quick search on an Internet search
engine, usually using the library is more efficient in retrieving quality,
reliable, appropriate information for your research.
Using
the Library from a Distance
Most
library resources are available to you even if you never set foot in the
library. You have access to 150
databases from wherever you have internet access. Through these databases
you have access to millions of journal articles that are not freely available
on the Web. To use library databases from off-campus, you simply logon
with your UW-Eau Claire username and password. Find
out more.
As
a UW-Eau Claire distance education student you also have access to our
extensive print collection. If you live outside of the Chippewa Valley
area, we will scan/email or mail articles and books from our collection
directly to you. Find out more.
Finding
books
To
find books in McIntyre Library on professional ethics, try the following
searches in the online
catalog:
- Business
ethics
- Professional
ethics
- Or try a keyword
search combining your profession with the word "ethics"
e.g. journalis?
ethics
(the ? will find any word starting with "journalis" such as
journalist, journalism, journalistic, etc.)
- Try a subject
heading search by selecting "subject heading" from the
Search by menu. Combine your discipline with one of the following
subheadings:
-moral and ethical aspects
-standards
-professional ethics
e.g. psychology
moral and ethical aspects
- Subject-specific encylopedias are excellent sources for finding information about your profession, its standards, codes of ethics, etc.
To find a subject-specific encyclopedia, try a keyword search in the online catalog combining your discipline with the word "encyclopedia."
e.g.: psychology encyclopedia
(note that most of the encyclopedia results will be in the library's reference collection and can only be used within the library)
If
you are a UW-Eau Claire online student living outside of the Eau Claire
area, you can request to have books sent to you. Find
out how.
To
limit a search just to the online
book collection, enter a keyword search and select netLibrary from
the dropdown list of basic limit options.
e.g. professional
ethics, limited to netLibrary
Books in the library reference collection (McIntyre Library, 1st floor, available for in-library use only)
- Business ethics and responsibility: an information sourcebook Z7164.C81 B595 1988
- Codes of professional responsibility BJ1725 .C57 1990
- Dictionary of medical ethics R724 .D53 1981
- Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics BJ63 .A66 1998
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics QH332 .E52 1995
- Encyclopedia of Ethics BJ63 .E45 1992
- Executive's handbook of model business conduct codes HF5387 .M336 1991
- Journalism ethics: a reference handbook PN4756 .J67 1997
- Measurement instruments in clinical ethics R725.5 .R43 2002
- Sports ethics: a reference handbook GV706.3 .B47 1994
Finding
journal articles
Select
a database in your discipline using Core
& More: Databases by Discipline
Try
several searches using different combinations of terms. Consider terms
such as:
- professional ethics
- business ethics
- ethics (combined
with the name of your profession)
- code of conduct
- professional conduct
- oath
- standards
- various words
to describe your profession. For example: psychology, psychologist,
psychologists, counseling, mental health, etc.
Example
databases:
Databases sometimes provide the entire journal article online, but not
always. Sometimes they only provide a citation (i.e. title, author, name
of journal, date, page, etc.). To find out if the article is available
online from another library database or from the library's print collection,
click the Find it button for the desired article. Find
out more about FIND IT!
Examples of journals with articles on ethics:
(to browse online and/or print journals in McIntyre Library, consult the Periodicals List for location)
- Professional
Psychology
- Counseling
and Values
- Journal
of Ethics
- Business
Ethics
- Internet
Journal of Law, Healthcare and Ethics
- Journal
of Information Ethics
- Journal
of Law, Medicine & Ethics
- Journal
of Mass Media Ethics
- Journal
of Medical Ethics
- Nursing
Ethics
- Ethics and
Behavior: is a relatively new journal that is central to this field.
McIntyre Library does not subscribe to this journal, but the table of
contents are available on the Ethics
and Behavior website. While individual articles may be purchased
through the website, you can request them for free through the library’s interlibrary loan service.
Interlibrary loan
If the library does not have the journal article you need, we can usually get it for you from another library. Request the article using the Interlibrary Loan online form. You will need the journal title, volume number, issue number, author, and article title. (If you request an article through interlibrary loan from a Find It screen, the journal article information will automatically be filled in for you).
Beyond
the Library
A
lot of good information is available on the Web. So is a lot of bad information
(inaccurate, biased, out-of-date, etc.). Finding the good stuff is your
challenge. Consider the following specialized search tools:
- Infomine:
Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: includes only selected,
evaluated, scholarly websites
- Internet
Scout Project: includes only evaluated, selected sites
- Google
Scholar: limits searches to "scholarly" information available
on the Web. Be aware that many results are citations for articles, often
accompanied by a link to a publisher's website where you can purchase
the fulltext of an article. Before purchasing any information, please
check with the library. In most cases we have it or can get it for you
at no cost!
- Clusty
and Teoma are two
web clustering search engines that organize, or cluster, results by
subtopics. Search results on "professional ethics," for example,
may be organized under subtopics such as codes, applied, philosophy,
training, opinions, etc.
Finding
scholarly information
For
college level research, it is often required or recommended that you use
scholarly information. Unlike popular magazines, with which most of us
are familiar, scholarly information is written by scholars or experts
in their field and their credentials are identified. The information is
usually written at a level requiring that the reader have a certain level
of understanding. The author fully documents his/her information and lists
all sources used. Peer-reviewed articles are scholarly articles which
have been reviewed by other scholars or experts in the field prior to
publication.
-
Some
library databases contain only scholarly information. Others let you
limit your search results to scholarly or peer-reviewed journal articles.
-
Most
scholarly information is not freely available on the Web. However,
Google Scholar and Infomine
are useful tools for finding some scholarly information on the Web.
Find out how to identify scholarly information
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
is the failure--intentional or unintentional--to give someone else credit
for his/her words, ideas or creative work. It can range from improperly
documenting a source in a paper to downloading an entire paper from the
Web and turning it in as your own work.
Find
out more:
Citing
Sources Using APA Style
-
Publication
manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed.
BF76.7 .P83 2001 (Available in the library at the library reference
desk, in the reference collection and on reserve. Older editions are
available for check out)
-
Using
APA format (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
-
APA
Documentation Style (UW-Madison Writer's Handbook)
-
APA
Citation Style (Long Island University)
- Electronic
References (APAstyle.org)
Questions?
Need help?
|
