Research Skills Survey
Advanced Composition for the Sciences
English 316

Complete the following survey before February 14. Print a copy of the completed survey for yourself and bring it with you to the library session on the 16th.

Class Time

8:00 am

9:40 am

Major

The following is a list of resources in the area of the social sciences available from the Library Web Pages. Please select the 2-3 most common resources you use to locate information for assignments in you major. If a resource is not listed please add at the end of the list.

	Biological Abstracts		Google
	Medline		Toxline
	GEORef		Applied Science and Technology full text
	Polk catalog		Nature Magazine online
	Environment		Science magazine online
	STNeasy		Geobase
	CIHANL		Math Sci Net
	BioOne		New England Journal of Medicne Online
	Pubmed		Health Source Nursing
	General Scince Full Text		Insitutes of Physics Journals online
	Colombia EarthScape		ACM Joural Online
	Reader's Guide		Science Citation Index
	Biological and Agicultural Index		Jstor
	Agricola		American Chemical Society Journals
	Academic Search Elite		Oxford Reference Online
			Other
			Other

2. List four criteria you use when selecting resources for a paper or project?

1. 2.
3. 4.

3. When doing your research, what are the most common problems that you encounter?