National Parks

Reference Works
Items found in the Library's reference department  provide useful introductions to subject areas and often offer selective bibliographic leads. Consult these for background information on the national parks:

• Natural history in the National Park System and on the national registry of natural landmarks. [REF] SB482 .A3 1990
• National geographic's guide to the national parks of the United States. [REF] E160 N244 1992
• America's national battlefield parks : a guide. [REF] E160 .S72 1990
• Access America : an atlas and guide to the national parks for  visitors with disabilitities [REF] G1201.G52 N6 1988

Books

• The Libraries' book collection includes works that offer comprehensive treatment of many  subjects. Use Pilot, our online catalog to find books in our collection as well as links to the full-text of electronic reserve items and other valuable information on the Internet.
• To search the catalogs of other Pennsylvania Libraries and to borrow from them directly, choose Get Books from our web page. (To borrow items, log in using your 16-digit I-card number.)
• To search for essays contained in book chapters search Essay and General Literature.  Essays located may not be held in our collections, but should be available through Interlibrary Loan.
• World Cat-search the OCLC Database of paper and electronic titles.

General Online Sources of Full-text Scholarly and Popular Magazines and Newspapers
Scholarly and popular magazines and newspapers offer concise and timely treatment of many issues. IUP patrons can access large collections of such information through the following services. (To gain access at home to the first two, use your 16 digit I-card number.)

• Ebsco Host--access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and newspapers, the bibliographic references to thousands more, and links to Internet sites and information on local holdings of periodicals.
• Infotrac/Searchbank-- access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic access to thousands more.
• Academic Universe- full-text database includes the last twenty years of local, national, and international newspapers and many other useful sources.

Specialized Indexes
Though large general databases offering full-text are easy to use, sometimes the source of the most scholarly and most relevant information is a specialized index. You also may wish to look at the complete list of these under Databases on our web page. Here are some examples:

• America: History & Life -- a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada.
• ERIC -- most comprehensive index to educational literature available offers access to citations and abstracts of educational periodicals and reports.
• MLA Bibliography -- index produced by the Modern Language Association consisting of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series.

Government Publications

• Marcive WebDocs -- database corresponding to the printed Monthly Catalog offers the most comprehensive bibliographic access to government publications published from 1976 to the present as well as links to sites on the Internet.
• Firstgov---the first-ever government web site to provide the public with easy,   one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources

For information on how to evaluate information found on the Internet, try the following:

• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools from Cornell
• Criteria for evaluation of Internet Information Resources

• How to Cite Your Sources

Notable Web Pages

• IUP English Department
• IUP Writing Center