Course Name: Understanding Your Community, URBN 290
Librarian: Janice Mathews, janice.mathews@uconn.edu
Class Webpage: /campuses/hartford/classes/urbn290.htm

Research Strategy

Learn to use your library home page, . Customize the page to Urban Studies and Greater Hartford Campus. The libraries' many resources are available at the homepage. These resources include a vast array of electronic databases; thousands of full text journals, magazines and newspapers, and numerous other resources and library services. The following are linked under "Online Resources" on the home page:

• HOMER to find books and journal titles held by the libraries
• Databases to find resources that will direct you to articles
• eJournals to track down journals that are available online
• Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan (DD/ILL) to request books and articles that are not on your campus

Resources for Urban and Community Studies

Searching for Books

HOMER provides access to the University of Connecticut Libraries' collections on the Storrs and regional campuses, through the UCAT catalog. The Simple Search is your quickest way to search HOMER. Type in your search terms in the box labeled "Search Terms" and choose the type of search you wish to perform using the "Type of Search" option box. Books in Trecker Library will have Greater Hartford Library as the location. You may have books in any UConn library sent to you through Inter-Campus Express.

Click here to learn more about How to Use HOMER UCAT

The Library of Congress subject heading for Hartford is Hartford (Conn.)

Searching for Articles

To located specific articles on your topic, access databases from the library homepage. UConn subscribes to over 240 Web-Based databases. Databases can be accessed alphabetically and by subject.

Hartford bibliography

Hartford Courant and New York Times (including historical) through ABI/INFORM

Academic Search Premier a full-text, multidisciplinary magazine & journal database that provides the full text of over 4,500 journals and magazines, and indexes more than 8,000 journals in all disciplines.

Social Sciences Citation Index a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences.

America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.

For information on the difference between journals and magazines click here: Journals & Magazines: How to Tell the Difference.

Publish in Hog River Journal!

Online Sources for Demographics and Hartford

United States Bureau of the Census

Windows on Urban Poverty, University of Texas at Dallas

HartfordInfo a project of the Hartford Public Library and the Hartford Community Information Center: information and data from a wide variety of sources.

Connecticut History Online The CHO website currently contains about 14,000 images of photographs, drawings, and prints that may be searched or browsed in a variety of ways, including by keyword, subject, creator, title, and date.

Connecticut Historical Society

Connecticut State Library Connecticut history links...

Using the Library From Home

University Information Technology Services has implemented a Virtual Private Network, or VPN, allowing students and faculty easy access to licensed library databases and electronic journals from off campus.  If you intend to use these materials, begin your research by logging in now.