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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Research and Critical Evaluation | |
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| Follow the Seven Steps of Research, but Be Flexible! | |
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| Define Your Research Question | |
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| Ask for Help | |
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| Develop a Research Strategy and Locate Resources | |
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| Use Effective Search Techniques | |
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| Read Critically, Synthesize, and Seek Meaning | |
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| Understand the Scholarly Communication Process and Cite Sources | |
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| Critically Evaluate Sources | |
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| Finding Books and Ebooks | |
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| Books and Scholarly Research | |
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| Use Books as a Shortcut | |
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| Use a Subject Encyclopedia to Start Your Research | |
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| Use Bibliographies and Web Guides to Locate Key Resources | |
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| Use Reference Books to Locate Quick Factual Information | |
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| Find Reference Books | |
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| Use Scholarly Books for a Broad and Deep Overview | |
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| Use Ebooks for Research | |
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| Do Not Read the Entire Book | |
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| Don't Use Books If... | |
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| Use Filtering Devices to Deal with Information Overload | |
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| Critically Evaluate Books | |
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| Scholarly and Popular Articles | |
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| Identify and Use Scholarly Journal Articles | |
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| Use Magazine and Newspaper Articles When Appropriate | |
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| Choose Databases to Search for Articles | |
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| Develop Effective Search Strategies | |
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| Locate Articles | |
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| Use Open Access Journals, Preprint Servers, and Institutional Repositories/University Web Sites | |
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| Evaluate Articles | |
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| Understand the Role of Informal Information Sources: Personal Web Pages, Blogs, and Wikis | |
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| Primary Sources: Online Tools and Digitized Collections | |
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| What Are Primary Sources? | |
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| Understand the Types of Primary Sources | |
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| Plan Your Research Strategy | |
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| Find Digitized Primary Source Collections on the Web | |
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| Find Primary Sources Using the Online Library Catalog | |
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| Visit Your Special Collections Department | |
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| Find Historical Newspaper and Magazine Articles | |
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| Use Special Microform Collections of Primary Sources | |
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| Critically Evaluate Primary Sources | |
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| Biographical Research | |
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| Develop a Strategy | |
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| Find Critical Essays and Brief Factual Information | |
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| Find Published Autobiographies and Biographies | |
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| Find Biographical Writings by Lesser-Known Individuals | |
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| Critically Evaluate Autobiographies and Biographies | |
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| Find Diaries | |
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| Critically Evaluate Diaries | |
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| Find Oral Histories | |
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| Critically Evaluate Oral Histories | |
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| Validate Biographical Writings Using Secondary Sources | |
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| Use Biographical Web Sites with Caution | |
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| Critically Evaluate Biographical Web Sites | |
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| Legal Research | |
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| Find Primary and Secondary Legal Resources | |
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| Find Case Law | |
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| Use Secondary Sources to Find Related Cases and Analysis on Points of Law | |
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| Understand Citations to Court Cases | |
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| Use a Legal Dictionary to Decipher Legal Terms | |
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| Find Supreme Court Cases | |
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| Find Lower Federal Court Cases | |
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| Find State Court Cases | |
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| Determine Whether a Case Is Still "Good Law" | |
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| Critically Evaluate Legal Resources | |
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| United States Government Documents and Statistics | |
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| Find Federal Agency Documents | |
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| Find Presidential Information Sources | |
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| Find Legislative Information | |
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| Find Government Documents from Other Countries and Resources from Intergovernmental Organizations | |
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| Critically Evaluate Government Documents | |
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| Find Statistics | |
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| Critically Evaluate Statistics | |
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| Citing Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism, and Organizing References | |
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| Develop a System for Taking Notes | |
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| Steer Clear of All Types of Plagiarism | |
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| Choose a Style Manual | |
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| Choose a Documentation Style | |
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| Use the Following Examples from the Chicago Manual of Style to Format your References | |
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| Use Bibliographic Software to Cite Your Sources | |
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| Bring Evaluation into the Process | |
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| Specialized Journal Article Databases: Indexes and Full Text | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Title Index | |
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| Subject Index | |