Library Guides: ITS 100: Information Technology Fundamentals: Home

Welcome

This guide should serve as a starting point for the research you do for your Information Technology and Computer Science courses. Use the tabs on the side of the guide to get started on finding background information, books, and articles.

Selecting a Topic

Choose a topic that interests you
Read through background information
Write out your topic as a statement and select the main concepts
Start making a list of words to describe your topic (try to come up with 3 or 4)
Come up with synonyms for the list of words that describe your topic

Having trouble deciding what to write about? Try looking at the links below to get some ideas:

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
IEEE Xplore is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
ScienceDirect - All Subscribed Content This link opens in a new window
Elsevier ScienceDirect is a leading scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 30,000 books.
Springer Link This link opens in a new window
Providing corporate researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.

Developing Keywords and Searching Databases

Keyword Exercise
An exercise for you to practice developing keywords and synonyms
Choosing keywords example
Some suggestions on how to get started with selecting keywords from a main topic.
Library Search Activity
This is the activity for class. It will provide practice on searching Primo and some databases.