Library & Media Services

Research Help

Where do I start?

Use the following subject and course guides as a starting place if you are not sure where to start your research. But remember, you can always get help from a reference librarian.

Course Guides

DA203: Perspectives in World Dance History
HI203: Social Movements in the Age of Liberalism
IN118: Knowing Faces
IN140: Good and Evil: Investigating Aggression and Altruism
IN311: Identity and Modern Life
IN370: Women, Media and Globalization
LI615: The Writer in the Archive
MH255A: Principles of Marketing
MH258A: Principles of Integrated Marketing Communication
MH259A: Principles of Advertising
MU203: Perspectives in World Music
OP100: Fundamentals of Speech Communication
OP471: Consumption, Activism and Social Change
SC270: The Brain and Human Communication
SC280: Science and Society
SO208: Visual Society
TH215-6: World Drama
VM220: Finding Public Domain Short Stories
VM412-9: American Film Comedy
VM413A: Postmodernism and the Media

How-to Guides

How to Cite References
How to Do Research
How to Find a Journal
How to Find a Speech
How to Find Film Reviews
How to Identify and Locate Scholarly Sources

Online Tutorials

CQResearcher
Library Catalog Introduction
Polling the Nations
[These tutorials require speakers or headphones]

Print Guides at the Reference Area

Guide to the Emerson College Library
How To Search Mediamark Reporter CD-ROM
How To Use Qualitap
How To Use Tapscan
Using Choices III
Using Mediamark Research and Simmons Study of Media and Markets
Information for Graduate Students
Selected Call Numbers for Emerson College Library of Congress Classification System
Map of the Library