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Use this tutorial to learn more about the research process. It is divided into four modules that you can use individually and can be reviewed in any order.

Workshops in basic computer skills are held during the fall and spring semesters. Past workshops have included: Windows Basics, MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint. For the latest schedule see flyers posted around campus or contact the Library Computer Lab Technician Raymond Diaz, at 718-960-6988 or diazr583@lehman.cuny.edu

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarize \'pla-je-,riz also j - -\ vb -rized; -riz·ing vt [plagiary] : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (a created production) without crediting the source vi: to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source - pla·gia·riz·er n
FROM: Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 9th ed, (Springfield, Ma: Merriam 1981, p. 870).

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due - Avoiding Plagiarism. The sites below are provide excellent pointers for avoiding plagiarism.

Reference Librarians
Come in and discuss your research needs with a reference librarian located on the first floor of the library. For assistance with education related topics consult the reference librarian in education (basement).

Library Tutors
Specially trained Lehman students, are available at the Reference Desk (1st floor) to provide extra help to anyone needing more training using CUNY+, the information databases, or the Internet. They will also assist patrons with looking for books and journals in the stacks. The tutors are available during afternoons and evenings as well as weekends.

How-To's on Using Library Resources

Having trouble choosing a research topic, browse through the list of Research Topics.
Need some background information, search the Lehman list of General and Specialized Encyclopedias.

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Research Topics

General and Specialized Encyclopedias

This list is divided into subject categories and provides at least one encyclopedia. Unless otherwise indicated all are available on the first floor in the reference collection. Encyclopedias cannot be borrowed and must be used in the library. You can also find other useful information in the reference area by browsing the call number areas.

GENERAL

The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2002. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: AE5 .E363 2002 Non Circulating

Collier's Encyclopedia: Wth Bibliography and Index. Lauren S. Bahr, editorial director; Bernard Johnston, editor in chief; Louise A. Bloomfield, executive editor. New York: Collier's, 1997. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: AE5 .C683 1997 Non Circulating

The Encyclopedia Americana. Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Inc., 1997. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: AE5 .E333 1997 Non Circulating

Funk & Wagnall's

Columbia Encyclopedia

ANTHROPOLOGY

Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology. edited by Tim Ingold. London; New York: Routledge, 1994. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: GN25 .C65 1994 Non Circulating

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Timothy L. Gall, editor. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: GN333 .W67 1998 Non Circulating

ART
The Dictionary of Art. editor, Jane Turner. New York: Grove, 1996. 
Location/Floor: Fine Arts Reference (2nd floor) 
Call Number: N31 .D5 1996 Non Circulating

BIOLOGY
Dictionary of Biology. Bill Indge. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Pub., 1999, 1997. 
Location/Floor: Sci Tech Reference (3rd floor) 
Call Number: QH302.5 .I534 1999 Non Circulating

Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. A.D. Smith, managing editor ... [et al.]. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 
Location/Floor: Sci Tech Reference (3rd floor) 
Call Number: QP512 .O94 1997 Non Circulating

BLACK STUDIES
The Encyclopedia of African History and Culture. Willie F. Page. New York: Facts on File, 2001. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: DT3 .P27 2001 Non Circulating

BUSINESS
International Encyclopedia of Business and Management. edited by Malcolm Warner. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: HF1001 .I53 1996 Non Circulating

CHEMISTRY 
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry. Joseph J. Lagowski, editor in chief. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1997. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: QD4 .M33 1997 Non Circulating

COMPUTER SCIENCE
Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. Raúl Rojas, editor in chief. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 
Location/Floor: Sci Tech Reference (3rd floor) 
Call Number: QA76.15 .E53 2001 Non Circulating

ECONOMICS
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics. Douglas Greenwald, editor in chief. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: HB61 .E55 1994 Non Circulating

EDUCATION
Encyclopedia of Education. edited by James W. Guthrie. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003. 
Location/Floor: Education Reference (Basement) 
Call Number: LB15 .E47 2003 Non Circulating

World Education Encyclopedia: A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide. Rebecca Marlow-Ferguson, editor and project coordinator; Chris Lopez, associate editor. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2001- 
Location/Floor: Education Reference (Basement) 
Call Number: LB15 .W87 2001 Non Circulating

GEOGRAPHY/GEOLOGY 
The Encyclopedia of Field and General Geology. edited by Charles W. Finkl. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: QE5 .E515 1988 Non Circulating

HISTORY
Encyclopedia of American History. Gary B. Nash, general editor. New York: Facts on File, 2002. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: E174 .E53 2002 Non Circulating

Encyclopedia of World History. New York: Facts On File, 2000. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: D21 .E577 2000 Non Circulating

LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN
Latin America, History and Culture: An Encyclopedia for Students. Barbara A. Tenenbaum, editor in chief. New York: Scribner's Sons, Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1999. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: F1406 .T46 1999 Non Circulating

The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. general editors, Harold Blakemore, Simon Collier, Thomas Skidmore. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: F1406 .C36 1985 Non Circulating

LAW
The Encyclopedia of American Law. [edited by] David Schultz. New York: Facts on File, 2002. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: KF154 .E528 2002 Non Circulating

Encyclopedia of American Government. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1998. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: JK9 .E52 1998 Non Circulating

LITERATURE
Encyclopedia of American Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2002. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: PS21 .F33 2002 Non Circulating

Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia. edited by Katherine Baker Siepmann. New York: HarperPerennial, 1987. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: PN41 .B4 1987b Non Circulating

MATHEMATICS
The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of Mathematics. by Beverly Henderson West, et. al. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1982. 
Location/Floor: Sci Tech Reference (3rd floor) 
Call Number: QA5 .P7 1982 Non Circulating

MEDICINE
Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, & Allied Health. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1992. 
Location/Floor: Sci Tech Reference (3rd floor) 
Call Number: R121 .M65 1992 Non Circulating

MUSIC
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. edited by Stanley Sadie; executive editor, John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Pub.; New York, 2001. 
Location/Floor: Fine Arts Reference (2nd floor) 
Call Number: ML100 .N48 2001 Non Circulating

NURSING
The Gale encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health. Kristine Krapp, editor. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. 
Location/Floor: Sci Tech Reference (3rd floor) 
Call Number: RT21 .G353 2002 Non Circulating

NUTRITION
Encyclopedia of Foods: A Guide to Healthy Nutrition. prepared by medical and nutrition experts from Mayo Clinic, University of California, Los Angeles, and Dole Food Company, Inc. San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, 2002. 
Lehman College Stacks Call Number: TX349 .E482 2002 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) On order

Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia. Audrey H. Ensminger et al. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1994. 
Location/Floor: Sci Tech Reference (3rd floor) 
Call Number: TX349 .F575 1994 Non Circulating

PHILOSOPHY
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward Craig, editor. London; New York: Routledge, 1998. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: B51 .R68 1998 Non Circulating

PHYSICS
Encyclopedia of Physics. Rita G. Lerner, George L. Trigg (editors). New York: VCH, 1991. 
Location/Floor: Stacks (3RD floor)
Call Number: QC5 .E545 1991 Regular Loan

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Timothy L. Gall, editor in chief. Detroit: Gale Group, 2004. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: G63 .W67 2004 Non Circulating

Encyclopedia of American Political History. Jack P. Greene, editor. New York: Scribner, 1984. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: E183 .E5 1984 Non Circulating

PSYCHOLOGY
The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science. co-editors, W. Edward Craighead, Charles B. Nemeroff. New York: Wiley, 2001. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: BF31 .E52 2000 Non Circulating

Encyclopedia of Psychology. Alan E. Kazdin, editor in chief. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2000. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: BF31 .E52 2000 Non Circulating

RELIGION
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. William H. Swatos, Jr., editor; Peter Kivisto, associate editor; Barbara J. Denison, James McClenon, assistant editors. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 1998. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: BL60 .E53 1998 Non Circulating

SCIENCE, GENERAL
Gale Encyclopedia of Science. K. Lee Lerner & Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 
Location/Floor: Sci Tech Reference (3rd floor) 
Call Number: Q121 .G37 2004 Non Circulating

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. 
Location/Floor: Sci Tech Reference (3rd floor) 
Call Number: Q121 .M3 2002 Non Circulating

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia. Douglas M. Considine, editor; Glenn D. Considine, managing editor. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: Q121 .V3 1995 Non Circulating

SOCIOLOGY
Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edgar F. Borgatta, editor-in-chief, Marie L. Borgatta, managing editor. New York: Macmillan; Toronto: Collier Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: HM17 .E5 1992 Non Circulating

SPEECH, LANGUAGE & HEARING
Concise Encyclopedia of Language Pathology. edited by Franco Fabbro; consulting editor, R.E. Asher. Amsterdam; New York: Elsevier, 1999. 
Location/Floor: Sci Tech Reference (3rd floor) 
Call Number: RC423 .C656 1999 Non Circulating

THEATRE
The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. Don Rubin. London; New York: Routledge, 1994- 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: PN1861 .W67 1994 Non Circulating

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. [Stanley Hochman, editor in chief]. New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1984. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: PN1625 .M3 1984 Non Circulating

WOMEN'S STUDIES
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. General editors, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender. New York : Routledge, 2000. 
Location/Floor: Reference (1st floor) 
Call Number: HQ1115 .R69 2000 Non Circulating

AMA (American Medical Association)

Manual of Style

APA (American Psychological Association)


Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources. (University of Alberta)


Internet and World Wide Web

OWL - Online Writing Lab. (Purdue University)


Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources


Writing Center. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


ASA (American Sociological Association)

ASA Style Guide

INTERNET

Quoting and Paraphrasing Sources. (Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Guide to Citing Internet Sources (The Internet Public Library)

MLA (Modern Language Association)

OWL - Online Writing Lab. (Purdue University)

Writing Center. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

CHICAGO/TURABIAN

Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources. (University of Alberta)

Writing Center. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources