College of DuPage Library

Many of the following books are all available electronically. You will need a current library card to access books online. Please note that some books are available for one simultaneous user only. Titles of books available in print will include the call number.

E-books: There are several e-books listed below. You'll need a current COD library card to access these books. You can also search and browse our e-book collections for additional titles here

Travel Guides

• Escape to Tuscany
  General DG732 .G53 2001

• Fodor's Exploring Tuscany
  General DG732 .F63 2005

• Fodor's Italy
  General DG416 .I817 2009

• Florence & Tuscany e-book
• Frommer's Italy
  General DG416 .F74 2012

• Hidden Tuscany : Unusual Destinations and Secret Places
  General DG732 .L77 1999

• Insight Guides - Italy
  General DG416 .I83 2011

• The Most Beautiful Country Towns of Tuscany
  General DG734.23 .B46 2001

• Time Out Florence & the Best of Tuscany
  General DG732 .T56 2001

• Top 10 Florence & Tuscany e-book
• Walking in Italy
  General GV199.44.I8 W35 1998

• Walking in Tuscany : Etruscan Trails in Old Etruria
  General DG732 .P74 2000

Arts & Architecture

• Architecture and Memory: the Renaissance Studioli of Federico de Montefeltro e-book
• An Art Lover's Guide to Florence
  General N6921.F7 T47 2012

• Italy : The Essential Guide to Viewing Italian Renaissance Art
  General N6914 .M67 2004

• Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena (1260-1555)
  General ND621.S6 N67 2003

• Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500
  General ND 621 .S6 C47 1988

Culture

• Bella Tuscany : The Sweet Life in Italy
  General DG734.23 .M378 1999

• Culture and Customs of Italy e-book
• Culture Shock - Italy!
  General DG451 .F35 2001

• Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque: A Collection of Essays e-book
• Regions of Italy : A Reference Guide to History & Culture e-book
• Tuscany and its Wines
  General TP559.I8 J64 2000

• Under the Tuscan Sun : At Home in Italy
  General DG734.23 .M38 1998

• Tuscany : The Beautiful Cookbook : Authentic Recipes from the Provinces of Tuscany e-book
  General TX723.2.T86 D4 1992

• Venice, The Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City e-book
• Wines of Italy
  General TP559.I8 A58 2002

History and Geography

• The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History e-book
• The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy e-book
• The Economy of Renaissance Florence e-book
• Florence Ducal Capital, 1530-1630 e-book
• The History of Italy e-book
• From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance e-book
• Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence e-book
• The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community e-book
• The Origins of the State of Italy, 1300-1600 e-book
• Power and Imagination: City-states in Renaissance Italy e-book
• A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany : Family and Power in the Creation of the State e-book
  General JN5276 .B45 1996

• Renaissance Florence e-book

Streaming Videos

• Academic Video Online
  Find hundreds of newsreel footage and documentaries on Italy. Subjects include culture, politics, history and current events. Refine your search results by limiting your results to, for example, discipline, subject and historical era. These limiters are located on the left side of page.
  

• Ethnographic Video Online
• Films On Demand

Many films on Italy, primarily from the perspective of Business, current and historical footage.

E-book Collections

E-books are published using a variety of platforms - some can be accessed using tablet readers.

Searching Collections:

These collections can be searched by using the keyword "Italy" for broad search results. Adding keywords such as, for example, "History" or "Culture" to your search will produce fewer results but these results will be more precise.

Many, but not all, books in these collections can also be located and accessed by searching in the Library's book catalog.

• ebrary

Many e-books can be viewed from your computer or downloaded to your e-book reader. You need to create an account to download -books to your device.

• EBSCO e-book collection

Find several e-books on Italy covering various subjects such as Culture and Society, History, Politics and Literature. NOTE: Books can be viewed by single page on a computer, or, can be downloaded to an -book reader. You'll be prompted to create an EBSCO account. The loan period for e-books is four hours. Books can be renewed after the initial loan period expires.

• Humanities (ACLS) E-book Collection

This resource includes over 1500 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching. Pages from this collection can be printed and emailed.

Databases - Best Bets

Below are databases covering Art, History and general topics. You can access these databases from the alphabetical listing of databases

• Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete provides both scholarly and popular journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study and is a great resource for general research.
The search screen can be changed to Italian language: Top-right of screen, under "Languages" select "Italiano"

• AcademicOneFile

Academic OneFile is great for both popular and peer-reviewed full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, and is an excellent resource for general research.
The search screen can be changed to Italian language: Top-center of screen, under "English" select "Italiano"

Excellent source for information on Italian artists, famous works of art by Italian artists and Italian art traditions.

Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. The collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers.

JSTOR is an archive of digitized journal articles ranging in date from the 1700s to the early 2000s. These collections span a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences.

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies and criticism of authors from every age and literary discipline. The Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

This resource includes the full-text of:
Grove Art Online
Oxford Companion to Western Art
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms

Websites - Guidebooks and Area Studies

• Conde Nast Traveler - Italy
  Free travel information for Italy, organized by city and region. Includes information on hotels, restaurants, nightlife and cultural attractions.

• Fodor's Italy
  Organized by region and city, Fodor's Italy provides many useful tips for travelers in Italy. Essential Italian phrases for travelers, tips for eating and staying in Italy, and links to historical sites and top attractions are of note.

• National Geographic - Italy
  Find facts, maps, photos and videos on Italy. NOTE - You will need to create an account to access all free content on this site.

• NY Times Italy Travel Guide
  Articles, photos and video about Italy from The New York Times, including hotel, restaurant and attraction information with reader reviews and advice on where to stay, where to eat and what to do.

• Rick Steves' Italy
  Plenty of useful, free information from travel guide Rick Steves. This site contains tips, photos, videos, and travel information on Italy. Included are excerpts of Steves' Italy travel guide as well as photos, tips for planning trips, and travel information for specific cities and regions.

• Michelin Travel Guide - Italy
  General information on traveling in Italy - note the sections labeled "Useful Information" and "History and Culture" in center of page.

• Yahoo Travel - Italy
  Directory arranged by "best for" categories and by city. Includes useful sections on restaurants and "What to Do" for each listed city. Provides user-written reviews.

Picking Your Topic

The field of genetics can encompass anything from vaccines to food to human cloning. One of the best ways to find a research topic that interests you is to look at dictionaries and encyclopedias in order to figure out what studies in genetics are being done.

Start with the following:

Gale Virtual Reference Library ONLINE.
CQ Researcher ONLINE
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society by Paul Robbins

Still Feeling Lost?

Try looking at current magazines and/or journals to see what types of research are being done in genetics. At our library, we have the following in print:

• Scientific American
• Science News
• Bioscience
• American Scientist

Searching Databases to Find Scientific Research Articles:

Once you know what keywords or topics you'd like to pursue, it's time to head to the databases in order to find good sources.

Best bet databases for this project:

Science Direct
Science Direct is a database full of scientific scholarly articles. In order to search, try putting in two keywords and selecting "Subscribed Journals" on the initial search screen. Confused? Click below.

Academic Search Complete.
Academic Search Complete is a database covering a wide variety of topics, with articles ranging from newspaper and magazine articles to scholarly articles. Therefore, you want to be very careful about looking at the results of your search to make sure that you have a scientific research article for class. Try using the same keywords you used in Science Direct, and then use the date and Scholarly (Peer Reviewed ) Journals limits to get started.

See all Biology Databases

Distinguishing a Research Article From a Popular Article

Worried that you might be reading a trade article from a scholarly article, or a review article from a scientific research article?

Start by looking for the distinctive markers of a scholarly article: are the authors' degrees or university affiilations listed? Do you see an abstract? How about charts, tables, graphs?

Once you are certain that you are looking at a scholarly article, make certain that your article is a scientific research article, by looking for the following distinctive sections:

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Method
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• References or Works Cited

Some of these sections may be merged with other sections, have slightly different names, or may not be labeled, but all should be present in one way or another.

Confused? Take a look at page one of a scholarly article below:

Want to take a closer look? Cladophora (Chlorophyta) spp. Harbor Human Bacterial Pathogens in Nearshore Water of Lake Michigan is a research article found on PubMedCentral, the government-sponsored free article database. You can use this as a model scholarly research article.

Using APA Style

Find directions about how to cite your sources on the library citation guide.

Most databases will have a Cite link that you can also click to get article citations.

Finally, you are welcome to use NoodleBib if you'd like to use a program to create and organize your citations. You must "Create a New Folder" when you use NoodleBIB for the first time. Click on "I am citing a(n):," choose the type of item you are citing, and then fill in the online form. Your bibliography will be formatted for you.

Further questions about APA style? Check out the APA Style Blog, which includes sample papers.

Finding Books

Use the COD Library's book catalog to find books & videos. Click on the "keyword" tab to search using multiple search terms and limit your results by material type (book, video), date, or language. You'll need a current library card to check out books.

E-book Collections
Most books in these collections can also be located and accessed by searching in the Library's book catalog.

• ebrary

Collection contains many Great Migration-related books. In the search box, type in "great migration" Many e-books can be viewed from your computer or downloaded to your e-book reader. You need to create an account to download e-books to your device.

This collection contains several books that pertain to the Great Migration. Begin your search by typing in the phrase "Great Migration" in the search box. Pages from this collection can be printed and emailed.

Reference Works

Reference works, such as dictionaries and encyclopedias are useful for learning about background information on the Great Migration.

Please note that print reference books may be used while in the library only. Online reference books may be accessed from any on or off-campus computer. You'll need a library card to access online books and articles from off-campus.
Click on the links below to access the online book/website or record/description of the print book.

Encyclopedias

• The African American Encyclopedia
  Reference E185 .A253 1993 v.4

• Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007
  Reference E185.96 .B526 See also the companion web site.

• Black Women in America
  General E185.86 .B542 2005

• Civil Rights in the United States
  Reference E184.A1 C47 2000

• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
  Reference E185 E54 1996 v.4

• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History - the Black Experience in the Americas e-book
  Also in Reference E185 .E54 2006 v.4

• Encyclopedia of American Race Riots. e-book
• The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America
  Reference E185.61 .E544 1998

• Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration e-book
• Freedom Facts and Firsts : 400 years of the African American Civil Rights Experience - e-book
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century. e-book
• Historical Statistics of Black America
  Reference E185 .H543 1995

• The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference
  Reference E185 .N49 1999

• Notable Black American Men
  Reference E185.86 .N68 1999

Databases

The Library subscribes to many databases that provide access to thousands of popular and credible, scholarly journals. Many databases provide access to full-text articles, while some provide information about the article only (citation). Request (for free!) through Interlibrary Loan copies of articles to which the Library doesn't have full-text access.

Databases - Best Bets

• History Study Center
  Find Journal articles, reference materials and multimedia presentations on the Great Migration. Copy and paste into the search box the following text to retrieve information specific to the Great Migration: "Great Migration" AND ("African american" OR Negro OR black)

• JSTOR

Click here to run a search for articles specific to the Great Migration in JSTOR.
JSTOR is an excellent source for credible scholarly, peer-reviewed articles and book reviews. Articles in database were published between the early 1700s and between 1-5 years ago.

• Project MUSE
  Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
  To search in Project MUSE, click on the Advanced Search screen, and try using the following search as shown in the image below:
  

Websites

Who can publish on the Internet? Anyone.

You may find a website by doing a web search or through a recommendation of another student. Before you use a website for your assignment, you should evaluate the webpage for credibility, reliability, authority and purpose. Check out the CRAP Test for more information on evaluating websites.

The following websites have been evaluated for their credibility.

• Amistad Digital Resource - The Great Migration
  Brief overview of the Great Migration.

• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
  Beginning with the 15th century Transatlantic Slave Trade through African Immigration in the 1970s, this site includes images, texts, maps and other educational materials that "...presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds."

• The African American Mosaic - Migrations
  This site, hosted by the he Library Of Congress contains maps relating to African American migration. Of particular note is the collection, Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration.

• Digital Harlem - Everyday life 1915-1930
  "The Digital Harlem website presents information, drawn from legal records, newspapers and other archival and published sources, about everyday life in New York City's Harlem neighborhood in the years 1915-1930."

• Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North
  NPR's Terri Gross interview with Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Sons," which looks at the experiences of African Americans migrating north in the United States.

• North by South: The African American Great Migration
  NEH-sponsored three year project conducted by students at Kenyon College that looks at African American migration from the South to the North. This study looks at migration between the following cities: South Carolina to New York City, the Mississippi Delta to Chicago, and Birmingham, Alabama, to Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

• Talking History: Goin' North - Tales of the Great Migration
  Five-part documentary radio series on the Great Migration, produced by Charles Hardy III, Professor of History at West Chester University.

Many of the following books are all available electronically. You will need a current library card to access books online. Please note that some books are available for one simultaneous user only. Titles of books available in print will include the call number.

Travel Guides

• China - Eyewitness Travel Guides
  General DS705 .C4644 2012

• China - Lonely Planet
  General DS705 .C455 2013

• Fodor's Exploring China
  General DS705 .F634 2007

• Fodor's China
  General DS705 .F62 2009

• The National Geographic Traveler - China
  General DS712 .N38 2012

Arts & Architecture

• Pattern and Person : Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China e-book

Culture

• China: A Global Studies Handbook e-book
• Culture and Customs of China e-book
• Pop Culture China!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle - ebook
• Woman and Chinese Modernity : The Politics of Reading between West and East e-book
• Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society e-book
• Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 e-book
• Understanding China Today : Business and Technology in China e-book

History and Geography

• Awakening China : Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution e-book
• Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections : Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture - ebook
• Asian Orderlands : The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier e-book
• Between Winds and Clouds : The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE e-book
• The Romance of China : Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776 to 1876 e-book
• Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China e-book
• History in Three Keys : the Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth - ebook
• The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang e-book
• Women in the Chinese Enlightenment : Oral and Textual Histories e-book

Government & Politics

• China: A Global Studies Handbook e-book
• China Business Laws & Regulations - ebook
• Doing Business with China -ebook
• Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China e-book
• Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations - ebook
• Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 e-book
• Pollution in China - ebook
• Understanding China Today : Politics and Government in China e-book

Religion

• Way and Byway : Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China e-book
• Early Chinese Mysticism : Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition e-book

Streaming Videos

• Academic Video Online
  Find hundreds of newsreel footage and documentaries on China. Subjects include culture, politics, history and current events. Refine your search results by limiting your results to, for example, discipline, subject and historical era. These limiters are located on the left side of page.

• Films On Demand

Many films on China, primarily from the perspective of Business, current and historical footage.

E-book Collections

E-books are published using a variety of platforms - some can be accessed using tablet readers.

Searching Collections:

These collections can be searched by using the keyword "China" for broad search results. Adding keywords such as "History" or "Culture" to your search will produce fewer results but these results will be more precise.

Many, but not all, books in these collections can also be located and accessed by searching in the Library's book catalog.

• ebrary

Many e-books can be viewed from your computer or downloaded to your e-book reader. You need to create an account to download e-books to your device.

• EBSCO e-book collection

Find several e-books on China covering various subjects such as Culture and Society, History, Politics and Literature. NOTE: Books can be viewed by single page on a computer, or, can be downloaded to an -book reader. You'll be prompted to create an EBSCO account. The loan period for e-books is four hours. Books can be renewed after the initial loan period expires.

• Humanities (ACLS) E-book Collection

This resource includes over 1500 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching. Pages from this collection can be printed and emailed.

Databases - Best Bets

Below are databases covering Art, History and general topics. You can access these databases from the alphabetical listing of databases

• AcademicOneFile

Academic OneFile is great for both popular and peer-reviewed full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, and is an excellent resource for general research.

• Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete provides both scholarly and popular journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study and is a great resource for general research.

• Art And Architecture Complete

Excellent source for information on Chinese artists, famous works of art by Chinese artists and Chinese art traditions.

• Credo Reference

Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. The collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers.

• JSTOR

JSTOR is an archive of digitized journal articles ranging in date from the 1700s to the early 2000s. These collections span a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences.

• Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies and criticism of authors from every age and literary discipline. The Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

• Oxford Art Online

This resource includes the full-text of:
Grove Art Online
Oxford Companion to Western Art
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms

Websites - Guidebooks and Area Studies

• China - China National Tourist Offices - CNTO (Official China tourism site)
  Good source for information on China's history and culture, geography, holidays and festivals, and other useful travel information. See the "About China" "Useful Information" and "China 360" tabs near the top of the page.

• Conde Nast Traveler - China
  Free travel information for China, organized by city and region. Includes information on hotels, restaurants, nightlife and cultural attractions.

• Lonely Planet - China
  Lots of free content interspersed with advertisements, Lonely Planet - China offers several collections of resources, such as Architecture in China, Best of the Great Wall, Top Things to do in China, Ancient China and China's Top Festivals.

• Fodor's China
  Organized by region and city, Fodor's China provides many useful tips for travelers in China. Essential Chinese phrases for travelers, tips for eating and staying in China, and links to historical sites and top attractions are of note.

• Frommer's China
  Frommer's free website includes many "best bets" for museum attractions, towns & villages and temples & Shrines. Also included are resources by region, city and national park.

• Michelin Travel Guide - Mainland China
  General information on traveling in China - note the sections labeled "Introduction" "Reports" and "Useful Information" in center of page.

• National Geographic - China
  Find facts, maps, photos and videos on China. The sections for "World Heritage" sites and for the cities Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai are of particular interest. NOTE - You will need to create an account to access all free content on this site.

• NY Times China Travel Guide
  Articles, photos and video about China from The New York Times, including hotel, restaurant and attraction information with reader reviews and advice on where to stay, where to eat and what to do.

• Telegraph's China Travel Guide
  "An insider's guide to China, including when to go, where to stay, the best tour operators, what to pack and recommended reading." Scroll to the bottom of the page to find guides for select cities.

• Yahoo Travel - China
  Directory arranged by "best for" categories and by city. Includes useful sections on restaurants and "What to Do" for each listed city. Provides user-written reviews.

Library Research Services

• Get a Library card!
• Get research help both in-person and online
• Start at the Library website

Searching the Library

• Use the Library catalog
• What you'll find: Books, articles, videos, e-books, streaming media, audio
• Items are from the COD Library, other Illinois academic libraries, and libraries throughout the world

I-Share

As students,you have convenient access to over 32 million items in 82 academic libraries throughout Illinois.

• Getting an I-Share account and requesting I-Share items

Specialized Databases

Safari Books Online

The Safari TechBooks database contains the full text of books specifically for the Information Technology professional. It includes top publishers like O'Reilly, Sam's, CISCO Press and many more. Pages from this collection are printable. Books cannot be downloaded in their entirety.

Lynda.com

Lynda.com provides a vast online library of instructional videos covering a variety of topics such as software training, business and creative skills, and study skills. Taught by accomplished teachers and recognized industry experts, Lynda.com is a high-quality resource for students, faculty, and staff looking to develop skills in Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, educational technology, social media, coding, and a wide range of other topics.

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