Galileo is your one-stop-shop for academic research! These pages will give you all the tools you need to be successful when seeking sources for any type of research you need to do.
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Go to: GALILEO | Databases by Subject | Find a Journal | All Databases A-Z |
Special e-Book collections: Popular reading @ Overdrive | Health sciences resources @ R2
Guide to popular reading in print: Poptitles
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Go to: Streaming Video @ Kanopy |
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GALILEO is a collection of databases provided by GHC and the University System of Georgia.
A DATABASE is searchable collection of online subscription resources (journals, images, videos, and sometimes whole books); usually material that is not available through free search engines like Google
A JOURNAL is a regularly published "magazine", usually related to an academic discipline, often containing articles, book reviews, and other material about the subject
An ARTICLE is a single written work published in a journal or magazine
Think of a filing cabinet. The whole cabinet is Galileo. A single drawer is a database. A folder within the drawer is a journal (or a book!). A piece of paper within a folder is an article (or a book chapter!)
Image CC-BY Georgia Highlands College Library
There are some important things you need to know about articles and databases.
GALILEO is chock-full of information, but some of its contents would not be appropriate for college-level work. For example, you would never want to use the following in any assignment requiring scholarly or peer-reviewed sources:
Why do I point this out? Because these kinds of results can often appear in your searches, and you need to be able to recognize them.
For book reviews, look in the first few sentences for things like a book title with an author, or phrases like "this is a review of the book Blah Blah Blah" Sometimes in the basic citation link - even before you click into it - you will see the words "book review". Just say NO!
Encyclopedia and dictionary entries are even easier to spot. Look at the citation link for the words "encyclopedia" or "dictionary."
All this is to remind you to PAY ATTENTION to what you're reading! If you make sure you have excellent sources right from the start, you'll have a much easier time when you get down to writing your paper.