Information Literacy Competency
The Information Literacy Competency for Rockhurst University Students document outlines the needed competencies for a person to be considered "information literate" in today's world. You will develop competencies in many of these areas in this course and in the future courses you will take in your program. Several of these competencies will be addressed in today's presentation.

Ask A Librarian Research Assistance
This instruction page will likely inspire additional questions on your research when you return to this page to use the recommended resources. Please visit our Ask a Librarian page to get additional help from a librarian.

Identifying Materials in the Library Collection
Materials owned by the library can be identified by using the Online Catalog. Rockhurst University is a member of the MOBIUS consortium consisting of 60 Missouri academic libraries. Books available in MOBIUS libraries can be requested by you and sent here for your use. Additional information about this is found on the Patron Initiated Borrowing Through the Online Catalog guide.

For sources specificially on the Victorian Era, do a Library of Congress Subject Heading search for "Great Britain--History--Victoria". Additional sources would be found under headings such as "Great Britain--History--19th Century", "Great Britain--Social Conditions--19th Century", "Public Health--Great Britain", "Medicine--Great Britain", "Communicable Diseases--Great Britain", "Crime--Great Britain", "Punishment--Great Britain", "Police--Great Britain", "Poverty--Great Britain", "Poor--Great Britain", "Great Britain--Social Life and Customs" and others.

British Parliamentary Papers are held by several libraries in the MOBIUS consortium. Search the MOBIUS catalog with a Title search for "British Parliamentary Papers".

Periodicals (journals, newspapers and magazines) owned by the library can be identified by linking to the Periodical Holdings page on the library web site. On this page you will be directed to use the Periodicals Holdings List to see if we have a subscription to a title.

Understanding the Difference Between General Periodicals and Scholarly Journals
Criteria to determine how scholarly and trade journal articles differ from general interest articles in the field can be found on the Scholarly Journal, Trade Journal or Popular Magazine? guide.

Access to Library Databases
On campus access to most of the library's subscription databases is available on the "Electronic Resources" page. Use either the alphabetical or subject lists of databases to find the one you need.

Off campus access is available through the VPN proxy server provided by Computer Services. The Off Campus Access to Databases page will link you to the page provided by Computer Services. If you link directly to the library's web site outside of VPN you will not be able to use the databases.

Sources of Analysis and Discussion on British History in Library Databases

19th Century British Library Newspapers
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection. More information can be found in the Topic Guide for this resource.

19th Century U.K. Periodicals: Empire Series
Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary and Colonial covers a dominant factor in 19th century British history — the expansion of Empire. With titles from India, Canada, south and East Africa, Australia and New Zealand alongside British titles covering aspects of the economics, business, trade of empire along with non-mercantile side of British expansionism in the missionary movement, this section draws on the royal Geographical Society’s remarkable collections along with commonwealth National Libraries. Titles include: Capital and Labour, The Examiner, Liberty Review, The Canadian Journal, The Economist, The scribbler, The Literary Garland, Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women, Melbourne Punch, the Friend of India, The Asiatic Review and Colonial Chronicle. More information can be found in the Topic Guide for this resource and a Review and Analysis.

Historical Abstracts
Citations and abstracts to scholarly journal articles covering history 1450 to the present, but excluding the US and Canada. Citations to books and dissertations. Covers approximately 1800 journals in over 50 languages. This database is updated monthly and coverage is from 1965 to the present.

Humanities E-Book Project
The American Council of Learned Societies provides this database which is the full-text of both in-print and out-of-print important books in the field of history. Due to copyright restrictions, the full-text cannot be printed or downloaded from the database. Some of the titles are available for purchase directly from the publishers through the database.

JSTOR
This is an electronic archive of scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, which have been digitally reproduced to provide access to the backfile of each title. Some titles go back to the 19^th century. JSTOR will not include the last 2-5 years of the journals.

Internet Resources

British History Online
http://british-history.ac.uk/
The site is a digital library of text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period, built by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust at the University of London.

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
This site offers the text to numerous European historical documents arranged by region and historical period.

History Net
http://www.thehistorynet.com/
A vast collection of articles on all aspects of history.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Covering early modern Europe to the present, this site offers a large collection of information and numerous primary and secondary resources.

Victoria Research Web
http://victorianresearch.org
A british web site with links to sources in Victorian research including archives, libraries, bibliographies, journals and other items.

Web of English History
http://historyhome.co.uk/
A web site covering English history from 1760-1830.

Additional Sources of Information in the Library Collection
In addition to the sources listed below, the library has many print sources in the Reference collection that give information on world history. Most of these sources cannot be checked out, so plan time to visit the library to consult them. Many of these are listed on the World History Sources Research Guide.

Library Accounts
The Rockhurst University ID card also is the library card for students. At the bottom of the card is the library account number, which begins "10006".

Register online for your library account or at the Circulation Desk on the main floor of the library. Rockhurst students, faculty and staff are required to use their Rockhurst email addresses in their library accounts. Library accounts expire at the end of each semester so you will need to reactivate your account next semester. This can also be done online.

You will be given a unique identification number in addition to your library account number. With this library account number and unique borrower identification number you may:

• Request items directly from the other libraries in the online catalog;
• Checkout items directly from other MOBIUS libraries. Rockhurst University is a member of the MOBIUS consortium consisting of 60 Missouri academic libraries around the state. This gives our students the ability to identify and use materials from the collections of these libraries. Currently the total of the collections of these libraries is nearly 20 million items.
• View your library account to see what you have checked out, renew items, view any unpaid fees on your account or view items on request from other libraries.

Detailed information about library accounts and utilizing all of the functions listed above can be found on the library's Circulation Services web page.

Interlibrary Loan
Articles not found full text in the library's collection or books not found in a MOBIUS library can be ordered from other libraries across the country through Interlibrary Loan. Use the forms on our Interlibrary Loan page to submit your request electronically. Books are free; articles are 20 cents per page per article. Usually you will have your materials within a week after submitting your request.

Proper Citation of Sources
When using information from other sources, whether copyrighted or not, it is necessary to give attribution to those sources. Doing so will help you avoid plagiarism.

More information about copyright is found on the Copyright and Fair Use guide.

Information on how to avoid plagiarism is on the Avoiding Plagiarism guide.

The library provides the RefWorks bibliographic management system. This is a bibliography management program that allows Rockhurst University faculty, students and staff to set up their own online account to manage electronic citations imported from databases subscribed to by the Greenlease Library as well as input citation information from print sources. Only Rockhurst University email accounts may be used with RefWorks accounts. These citations are easily incorporated into documents created in word processing programs. Many citation formats are included.

RefWorks Account Information

Tutorial and Quick Start Guide (PDF 2.42MB)*

Connect to RefWorks

How to Export Saved Citations from a Database Into RefWorks (PDF 89KB)*

Adding References Manually to RefWorks

Updated September 11, 2009