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Finding Magazine & Journal Articles
Selected Articles
Selected Web Sites
Finding Books
Article Databases:
Gale History Resource Center- on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Reference articles, primary documents, and full-text journal articles covering all
aspects of U.S.and modern world history.
- Enter search word(s) in the “Basic Search” box and click the Search button.
- If your search finds little or no results, use the Advanced search mode and select to search in Full-text of documents
- At the results page, additional articles may be available by clicking on the article type tabs--"Periodicals", "Primary Sources", "Maps & Images" & "Reference Materials" at the top of the page.
- Click on the title of an article to display the full text of the article.
Power
Search databases - on campus or off-campus w/ librarycard
articles from academic
journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and reference books -
excellent set of general periodical databases.
o Tonarrow searches, combine concepts with AND.
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PLEASE NOTE: When
search results are first displayed, only magazine
articles are shown, if available for your search.
Click on the “Academic
Journals” tab to display journal articles "News" tab
to display all news articles; click on the "Books" tab
to display reference articles.
Ethnic Newswatch - on campus oroff-campus
w/ library card
Full-text articles from
about 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native
press, in English and Spanish.
Alt-Press Watch (alternative press) - on campus oroff-campus
w/ library card
Articles from about 175 magazines, newspapers & journals from alternative and independent
presses.
Gale Literature Resource Center - on-campus oroff-campus w/ library card
High
qualityfull-text literary criticism & biographical info on authors.
Gale Biography Resource Center - on campus oroff-campus
w/ library card
Database of biographical articles on famous people.
All ofthe articles below are available from on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Articleson
Afghanistan history from the Gale History Resource Center database
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“Afghanistan.”
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations.12th
ed. Thomson Gale, 2007
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“Afghanistan.”
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East.Macmillan, 1996.
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“Afghanistan,
Political Parties in.” Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East.
Macmillan, 1996
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“Mojahedin.”Encyclopedia
of the Modern Middle East.Macmillan, 1996.
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“Soviet Troops Withdraw from Afghanistan,1989.”
DISCovering World History. Gale,2003.
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“Khaled Hosseini.” Gale Literature ResourceCenter. June
2007.
Recommended Web
Pages & Web Sites:
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Research Guide for The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
Syracuse University Library.
“A Country Study: Afghanistan”
Library of Congress
"Background Note: Afghanistan."
U.S. Department of State
“CIA World Factbook - Afghanistan.”
World Factbook
The PLS OnlineCatalog
is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in
the Peninsula Library System. After clicking on the link above to access the
catalog, follow the stepsbelow:
- Type search words in
the first search box (e.g.
- The search results
will show books and other materials in all libraries in the PLS system
- To Limit your results
to books at Skyline College Library, scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the
search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select
- Once you find one
book on your topic, click on the Subjects for that book to find
other books on the same or related subjects
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