Research Resources

Easy access to the most used products. To learn more, see descriptions in the section indicated.

Books, eBooks, and Textbooks

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Books

Eliot D. Pratt Library Online Catalog has 175,000+ items including 33,000+ books, 140,000+ eBooks, 400+ multimedia items, and 1,800+ Goddard Authors. Requests through the catalog are disabled during residency, but requests can be made through the rest of the semester for everything except reference, archives, & physical copies of eBooks. (available with current Goddard ID)

eBooks

EBSCCO eBooks

eBooks on EBSCOhost has over 140,000 eBooks available here and searchable in the Eliot D. Pratt Online Catalog. Read online, checkout & download to personal computers, or read on your mobile device or tablet. 

Textbooks

MERLOT Open Textbooks is a collection of open textbooks from the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT II) project, including those found in the Open Textbook Library and many more. Some may have associated costs for use/purchase. (available to anyone)

Open Textbook Library has 160+ real, complete textbooks licensed so teachers and students can freely use, adapt, and distribute the material. Can be downloaded for no cost, or printed inexpensively. Open Textbook Library is a project of the University of Minnesota. (available to anyone)

OpenStax College offers students 15 free, open-source, peer-reviewed, high-quality textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses and are written by professional content developers. Can be downloaded for no cost, or printed inexpensively. (available to anyone)

Articles and Journal Collections

EBSCOhost Products

EBSCOhost Research Products 4 cross-searchable research databases (Academic Search Complete, PsychARTICLES, GreenFILE, & Environment Complete) plus eBooks on EBSCO (see Books & eBooks section for those). (available with current Goddard ID)

Academic Search Complete has more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals. (available with current Goddard ID)

PsycARTICLES from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 153,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. Includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. (available with current Goddard ID)

EBSCO Environment Complete has 2.4 million+ records from more than 2,200 domestic & international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. Full text for over 920 journals. (available with current Goddard ID)

GreenFILE provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. (available with current Goddard ID – a free version is available to anyone at www.greeninfoonline.com)

Additional Resources

JSTOR offers backfiles of 117 core academic journals in Arts and Sciences, social sciences and humanities. (available with current Goddard ID — anyone can sign up for JSTOR Register & Read for free access to three articles every two weeks or can purchase a JPASS for personal access to 1700 JSTOR journals.)

Chronicle of Higher Education When prompted, Log-in name: library@goddard.edu ; password: PrattLibrary2021 (available with these credentials only)

Duende is the national literary journal of Goddard College’s BFA program. Along with issues published twice yearly, we regularly update our website with new stories, poems, & art. (available to anyone)

Dark Matter: Women Witnessing publishes writing and visual art created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse. (available to anyone)

Google Scholar is Google that weeds out most non-academic sources (beware of predatory journals and predatory publishers that may pop up in your searches when using Google Scholar or any general search engine). Though free materials are available, many are behind paywalls. If you are a current Goddard student, faculty, or staff member, don’t pay for articles! Request them through Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan and Purchase Suggestions

Helpful Info

How To Request Materials Through Interlibrary Loan

WorldCat is for book Interlibrary Loan requests & purchase suggestions for items we don’t own. 70 million items. (available with current Goddard ID – a free version is available to anyone to search at http://www.worldcat.org)

ArticleFirst is for article Interlibrary Loan requests. 15,000 journals and periodicals. If you cannot find your article, search for the publication in WorldCat and paste the citation in the comments so we know exactly what to ask for. (available with current Goddard ID)

Writing and Citing

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Citation Managers and Generators

NOTE: Citation managers & generators are tools to help organize your references and generate bibliographies. Print or online style guides and copy/pasting citations (where possible) from the catalog or database where you searched are also fine tools for getting bibliographies created. Use the tool(s) that work best for you and meet your educational goals.

Zotero is our recommended citation manager. It is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. There is 300 MB of cloud storage with more available to purchase if needed. View your Zotero library on a variety of apps available for iOS and Android. Find the right one for you from an ever changing stock by going to Google Play or the App Store and typing in “Zotero.” (available to anyone)

Zotero Quick Start Guide & Video Tour

Comprehensive Zotero Guide (Georgia State University Libraries)

12 Must Know Zotero Tips and Techniques (The Ideophone)

Creating Annotated Bibliographies with Zotero (Eastern Michigan University Libraries)

BibGuru is fast, completely ad-free, easy to use, free citation generator for students – no account creation necessary.

Citation Generator (free)

Cite This For Me (free)

Knight Cite (free)

Writing Help and Guides

Goddard College Writing Center has been designed to assist students with most types of writing and at any stage in the process (pre-writing, writing, re-writing). (available with current Goddard ID)

Worksheets by Suzy Shedd, Goddard College Academic & Disabilities Support Specialist (these worksheets are available to anyone)

Setting Up For Writing (Worksheet)

Written Previewing

Written Previewing Overview

Written Previewing Worksheet

OWL (Purdue University Online Writing Lab) offers over 200 free resources including: Writing and Teaching Writing, Research, Grammar and Mechanics, Style Guides, ESL (English as a Second Language), Job Search and Professional Writing. (available to anyone)

How To Cite Social Media In Scholarly Writing offers a brief explanation of the why and how to cite social media and shows the simple Social Media Citation Guide in MLA and APA formats. (available to anyone)

Writer’s Web (University of Richmond Writing Center) is a free, public-access handbook designed and maintained by University of Richmond Writing Center’s students and faculty. (available to anyone)

Guide to Grammar and Style (Harvard College Writing Center) these notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage that may be useful in making your writing clearer and more effective. (available to anyone)

APA Style Blog is the official companion to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition. It’s run by a group of experts who work with APA Style every day with links to social media that can bring the info to you. (available to anyone)

Bogus Citations : References to “Scientific Evidence” Are Routinely Misleading and Scammy 11 classic ways to self-servingly screw up references to science, like “the sneaky reach” or “the uncheckable.” (available to anyone)

Trust It or Trash It is a tool to help you think critically about the quality of health information, including websites, handouts, booklets, etc. Click on Who said it? When did they say it? and How did they know? to guide you through the process. (available to anyone)

Critical Writing: Introduce–Describe–Analyze–Reflect this chart is excerpted from “EDU Program Graduate Addendum 2009-10″ (available to anyone)

Final Products, Theses, and Dissertations

Digital Final Products provides access to theses and final products as submitted by Goddard’s graduates and undergraduates and approved as a partial requirement for conferral of their degrees. Covers the Fall 2010 semester to the present. (available with current Goddard ID)

ProQuest Dissertation Express has over 2 million abstracts & citations for graduate dissertations. Items in ProQuest are available for purchase by the researcher and not funded by the library. These are occasionally available through ILL or by contacting the author or the issuing school directly.