ResearchNavigator.com Guide

Research Navigator™ gives you access to hundreds of academic journals and periodicals and The New York Times Search by Subject Archive™ anytime and from any computer with an Internet connection. With great features like "Start Writing" and "Citing Sources" to help you find and cite valid sources, starting the research process has never been easier.

 

This updated booklet includes tips, resources, and URLs to aid students conducting research on Pearson Education’s research website, www.researchnavigator.com. The guide contains a student access code for the Research Navigator database, offering students unlimited access to a collection of more than 25,000 discipline-specific articles from top-tier academic publications and peer-reviewed journals, as well as The New York Times and popular news publications. The guide introduces students to the basics of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and includes tips for searching for articles on the site and a list of journals useful for research in their discipline. Also included are hundreds of Web resources for the discipline, as well as information on how to correctly cite research.

 

For standalone item, use ISBN: 0-205-52396-X. For valuepack item only, use ISBN: 0-205-51719-6.

PART 1    RESEARCHNAVIGATOR.COM

• What is ResearchNavigator.com?
• Registering witH ResearchNavigator.com
• EBSCO's ContentSelect Academic Jounal and Abstract Database
• The New York Times  Search by Subject Archive
• "Best of the Web" Link Library
• Financial Times Article Archive
• Using Your Library
• Start Writing
• Endnotes & Bibliography

PART 2    CONDUCTING ONLINE RESEARCH

• Finding Sources: Search Engines and Subject Directories
• Evaluating Sources on the Web
• Documentation Guidelines for Online Sources