CJ 280/EDM 260: Research Methods in CJ/EDM - Cline

1. My question is if the call number for books in the library includes the period and numbers following?

Yes! The call number for print books in the library includes the period(s) and any letters or numbers following. I've included a screenshot of a catalog record for a print book below. The call number is the entire string shown in the red box.

2. Still a little iffy on finding the citations of the articles through one search. 

It takes a little practice! I have some tips on the Finding Articles page of this guide, and I'll expand on those here. I have a screenshot below of a few citations from a list of references in an article. We're going to focus on the first citation, which is a book, and the fourth citation, which is a journal article (the volume and issue numbers are a good indication a particular citation is a journal article).

To check if the book The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness is available in the library, select the Books button on the library homepage (it's just below the big OneSearch bar), and then paste or type the title in the search bar on the following screen. For this particular title, we have several copies available. All are ebooks, as indicated by the Available Online note.

To find articles, you will search for the journal in which the article was published. On the library homepage, select the Journals button, which is next to the Books button under the OneSearch bar. On the following screen, you can search for the journal by title.

From the search results screen, you can click on the journal title to see what access the library offers in both print and digital formats - most of our journal access is online at this point. For the Journal of Appalachian Studies, we have three access points.

From the original citation, we see that the article we're looking for was published in 2016, so each of these three access points should work. Once you select your access point, you'll then need to navigate to the article itself using information from the original citation. So, for this article, we are looking for year 2016, volume 22, issue 1.

When you select the appropriate issue, it'll pull up all articles published in that issue, and you can then scroll the contents until you find the article you're looking for.

Note: We most likely won't have access to every article or book you look for. If you can't find an article or book that you need, reach out to me and I can help you acquire it.

3. What options do we have for graduating students to access these resources?

The options for alumni access depend on format. For materials in the physical collection (e.g., print books, DVDs), alumni can join the Friends of Hunter Library, which gives members many benefits including the ability to check out physical materials. For access to electronic resources like databases or online journals, options are limited. The library's license agreements with e-resource vendors do not allow for alumni access; once your WCU credentials expire, you will not be able to authenticate into the library's e-resources. However, we do have several public PCs in Hunter Library that don't require authentication and that anyone can use to access the library's e-resources, so alumni can always visit the library and use the public terminals.