Library

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Welcome to CCWU’s on-line, electronic library.
The CCWU Library provides every student access to the following:

On-line tutorials
Tutorials teach the user to navigate the library and the Internet. For instance, Internet 101 instructs students how to do research on the Internet, locate statistics and images in a variety of fields, to evaluate Internet information, and how to cite Internet sources.

Research Assistance
Research assistance consists of a core collection of topic-oriented research guides that provide overviews of major academic disciplines and business topics. Resources include books, periodicals, government and Internet resources, and others. Key subject areas in Humanities (for example) include American literature, Biblical studies, and folklore. Key subject areas in the Social Sciences include education and communications. Key subject areas in Business include global and conflict management.

Research Resources
Resources include links to more than 3,000 content-rich Internet sites, each of which has been evaluated by a librarian. Resources also include links to more than 325 federal government sites that provide access to 150,000 full-text government documents. The library also provides students with a career development resource center and access to thousands of full-text books.

Research Databases
You will have access to the following important databases, most of which contain full-text articles:

• Expanded Academic ASAP—indices, abstracts, and articles from approximately 1,200 periodicals in a wide range of academic fields.
• Business and Company Resource Center (including Newsletters ASAP and Predicasts PROMT)—overview of markets and technology, and a rich source of information on individual companies.
• Computer Database—sources on computers and technology.
  Health Reference Center-Academic—indices, abstracts, and articles from periodicals and other sources on a wide variety of topics related to heath and health care.
• National Newspaper Index—Index of newspaper articles.
• Custom Newspapers—full text articles from New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and St. Petersburg Times.
• Books in Print—index of all books in print.
• Infonautics—The Electric Library. The sources include full text books, magazines, newspapers, maps, and transcripts of TV/radio news and other programs.
  

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