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Starting Your Research

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e-Reference
Find Books
Find Articles
Cite Sources

Where to Start

Students in the First Year of Studies start here: First Year Student Portal

Set up accounts in the following library services:

	MyAccount lets you see all the items you have checked out and renew them online. You can also see the status of your recall and hold requests. Learn more here.
	Interlibrary Loan lets you get books and articles from other libraries that aren't available at Notre Dame. Set up your account here.
	RefWorks helps you manange your bibliographic citations on the Web and add them to your paper using the style your professor recommends. Set up your account here.

Don't get stuck having to do all the work at the last minute. The Assignment Planner will help you schedule the research and writing process so you get done on time.

Assignment Planner

Research Topic Ideas
(Hesburgh Libraries databases):

CQ Researcher

CQ Global Researcher

TOPICsearch (Ebsco)

Research Topic Ideas
(Internet):

Current Events by infoplease.com

The Learning Network; The New York Times

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries: English, Bilingual, Thesaurus, Translators and more. Best Bet: Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Reference Universe: database of article titles, keywords, and index terms from a core collection of reference materials such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs.

Hesburgh Library Reference Collection: Search for all materials housed in the Hesburgh Library Reference collections

Data & Statistics: A guide to finding data and statistics in the social sciences

Newspapers: Guide to identifying and locating newspapers available to researchers at Notre Dame

CatalogPlus — Locate books, journals, videos, and more in the Hesburgh Libraries, the Law School Library, and other nearby campuses, including St. Mary's and Holy Cross.

LC Call Numbers Classification - Check out the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification.

Call Number Locations — Consult this page to determine where to find books on a particular subject or when you have the call number for a book.

You can also consult the page to determine where to find books in Hesburgh Library on a particular subject.

Finding articles is as easy as 1, 2, 3!

1: Get started

These databases contain articles on a wide variety of topics. They work well to most First Year writing assignments.

Article QuickSearch searches several general databases simultaneously. If you find a database that is working well for your topic, you can search it directly for more articles.