LibGuides: Research Help: How to Evaluate and Search

Articles on the Scholarly Web

Finding and Evaluating an Article
This document will help you find articles at AUP library and figure out what questions to ask to evaluate them. It will also explain how to check to see if other French libraries might have the article you are looking for.
Find Journals
If you know the title of a journal but don't know where to find it - start here!

Finding and Evaluating a Book
How can you find a book at AUP? How do you know if it is good for research? Is it current? Is it written by a credible author? Published by a credible publisher? Are there citations and a bibliography? Who was it written for?

Find a Book Review
Word document that explains how to find book reviews in different databases. These can help you determine if a book is a good scholarly publication. You can see if an author has written other material and how his peers evaluated the book. If you need to evaluate a book, a review is a good place to see how other people evaluate books!

Free Ebooks
There are lots of free book sites online - here are some we have chosen to help you get started - theses, dissertations, journals, classic literature, older (out of copyright books), French, Latin and Greek sites, National Digital Libraries (great for primary sources).
Free Journals
There are lots of free journal sites online - here are some we have chosen to help you get started. French, English sites, National Digital Libraries (great for primary sources).
Find Books in other libraries
If AUP doesn't have what you need - where else might you go in Paris - here's a list to help you start looking.
Find Books in the library catalog
You can look for books and ebooks here! Not searching full text but searching basic subjects, titles, authors.
Ebooks, Online Reference
If you want to look at ebook content - dictionaries, atlases, art, classics, literature, and general reference encyclopedias - start here!

Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers by Mike Caufield
Publication Date: 2017
"This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly."