Comments Off on CHOICES III Database The CHOICES III database is still available on a computer in the Reference Department. And now there is a manual at that workstation to give you some assistance in setting up your research question, selecting columns and rows, and interpreting the results. For those of you needing consumer data about product and brand usage, this tool is just the thing.
Comments Off on Tax Forms Available Online The Reference Section of Irwin Library will no longer be making printed forms available for filing income taxes. Instead, we encourage you to download the forms and booklets you need and to print out the forms that you need to mail in.
Websites for the necessary forms are:
There is also a website, through Access Indiana, where you can file your state taxes online for free. It’s at http://www.in.gov/ai/appfiles/i-file/index.html. Be sure to read the “View Requirements” to make sure you meet the technological and residential requirements.
Note: Neither Irwin Library nor any of the librarians can offer legal advice or counsel. Please seek appropriate legal tax counsel if needed.
Comments Off on Finding the Author of an Article Need to find the name of an author when you don’t know the name of articles they’ve written?
Many of our databases have Indexes where you can search and browse through all the entries they have for that field (such as Author, Subject, Publisher, or even Language). Just look for the Indexes button at the top of the screen and select the field you want to search. Then put in one or more of the letters that the name starts with. It may take some browsing through screens, but it can help you find an author when you don’t know how to spell his/her name.
Comments Off on Finding an Author Here is an interesting reference question I got today.
A couple of students had an assignment where they were supposed to find the most recent article about child abuse by someone. The name they were given was D. Chicketty and they were told it was written phonetically, like they might have written it if they’d only been told the name. The first step was finding the real name of the author and then the next was finding the most recent article.
The first part was the hardest and was all I helped them with. The Psychology-related EBSCO databases don’t have a plain old list of authors, but they do have an Indexes button, where you can browse (and search) for terms in any of the standard fields they use. After poking around the Authors Index for a while, I figured out that the author was Italian and the spelling was really Dante Cichetti. Double-clicking the author’s name put the search terms in the “Find” textbox. Unfortunately, that only led to one article. I thought that odd, so I tried Googling the name and I got that good old “Did you mean _______?” link at the top, with the last name spelled differently (Cicchetti). Going back to PsycInfo and using THAT spelling, I was able to find tons of material (207 hits with Dante Cicchetti as an author).
It was a nice combination of using our subscription databases and Google.
Comments Off on NY Times Historical now available online The New York Times (Historical) database is now available via ProQuest.
While the most recent few years are not available online yet, you can
search the full text of pages and articles, from September 18, 1851 to
December 31, 2002. The collection includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.
You can get to this database through our list of Indexes and Databases.
Or logon directly: New
York Times (Historical)
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