Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Using Subject Guides to Research Information about Countries

Subject/Country/Student

African Studies/Guinea/Ahmed Asif Iqbal
Diversity Issues/Sri Lanka/Kim
General Ethnic Studies/Republic of South Korea/Luke
Popular Culture/Malaysia/Ying-Ying

Off of the Subject Guide Resource site from SCSU below
http://research.stcloudstate.edu/subjects.phtml?letter=E
you can research information by subject (in my case Ethnic Studies (General)) broken down by the following media sources:
  • Find Articles, Journals, Magazines and Newspapers
  • Find Facts, Definitions, Overviews
  • Find Maps and Atlases
  • Find Statistics
  • Use Research Guides and Style Manuals
  • Use Web Resources
  • Library Information

What I was able to find out about the "Republic of Guinea"

The scholarly articles in the library website are very specific. I wasn’t able to find any basic information on Republic of Guinea. I used the keyword “Guinea” at first and then it showed me information on “Papua New Guinea” and “Guinea Pig”. Then along with that I used “West Africa”. Then it showed me some articles based on research and outcome data. My goal was to look for basic information on the country which I wasn’t able to find. So I looked up information on other sites. I found the following websites very useful.

1. Google Search - www.Google.com

2. Wikipedia - http://www.wikipedia.org/

3. Cia World Factbook - https://www.cia.gov

Group Members
Kim
Asif
Yingying
Luke

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