Search for Books
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It is recommended that you "Sign in" to use Search. This allows you to more complete search of our library's collections, both virtual and physical.
The log in for Search. is your MyGate usename and password.
WorldCat
University Libraries offers interlibrary loan services to get materials for students. WorldCat is short for World Catalog. While some of the items can be found here at MSU, this is a catalog of books from around the world. So, if there is a book that you need that we do not own, look for it in WorldCat.
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WorldCatA world catalog of thousands of libraries worldwide, including books, manuscripts, computer data files, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, sound recordings, and videotapes. Interlibrary loan requests may be made directly from the database. Date coverage is comprehensive.
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Access ServicesUniversity Libraries' Access Services office manages all interlibrary loan requests.
Waterfield Library Maps
Finding Multilingual Articles
It is possible to find articles in Ebsco in a variety of languages. For information on how to do this, open the following document:
Basic Databases
There are two databases that are good for basic searches:
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Academic Search CompleteThe world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database. Indexes newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals in all disciplines. Contains a significant amount of full-text. Content available from 1915-present.
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Opposing Viewpoints in ContextOpposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. Includes different information formats, include statistics, opinion, news, and peer-reviewed articles.
Finding Articles
Databases are where you will find most of the journal articles, including peer-reviewed.
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Library GuidesLibrary Guides are made for each department on campus and the information in the guides are what the subject librarian thinks would be most helpful to the students in these departments. After selecting your department in the library guide, pick the tab that has the word "Articles" in the title.
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Databases A-ZDatabases provide access to journal articles, some e-books, and reports with keyword searching. This is an A-Z list of all of them, if you have a favorite.
What are Keywords?
Keywords are used in searching for books and articles if you do not have an exact title or author. The link below will take you to a Library Guide Page that can help with keywords.
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Creating a PlanCreating a Plan is part of a larger Library Guide. This page can help you plan your Keywords for searching RacerTrac and Library Databases.
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Thesaurus.comIf your Keyword does not work, you might need a synonym. Thesaurus.com can help you. Just type your keyword into the Search Box and it should give you a list of words with similar meanings.