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Course Specific Resources
3 Steps to Begin Successful Research
1. Learn about a possible topic: Who, what, when, where, why. You should be able to talk for a minute, without repeating yourself, on your possible topic. Try using
background resources.
2. Find an interesting question--not too easy, not too fuzzy, not too many parts, not too impossible. Should require analysis and thought.
3. List 2-3 main sub questions you'll have to research to answer your main question.
Background Resources
Opposing Viewpoints in Context (eg. maquiladora)
The premier online resource covering all sides of contemporary social issues.
CQ Researcher--Try the 'Browse tab' then select Climate, environment issues.
CQ Researcher explores important issues ranging from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science
and technology.
Points of View Reference Center
A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
Provides access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content including science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale's Virtual Reference Library is a collection of electronic reference books in the areas of history, arts, medicine, and science.
You can search the catalog and limit your items to reference entries. On the left, select 'Refine My Entries', then select 'more options',
then select 'Reference Entries.'
A large collection of online encyclopedias, Encyclopedia.com provides reference entries from published sources like Oxford
University Press and Columbia Encyclopedia.
Disciplinary Research Databases
Education
Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, books, and monographs.
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to more than 1.3 million records related to education literature and resources.
Multiple subjects
Academic Search Complete contains full text, indexing and abstracts, monographs and reports from more than 13,000 publications.
Humanities International Complete
Provides full text to hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world including full text for more than 1,200 journals.
Society, communities, sociology
Contains over 2 million records from 1,200 core journals including full text from 700 journals.
Gender, women's, LGBTQ studies
GenderWatch provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women.
LGBT Life with Full Text provides indexing and abstracts for over 190 journals and 330 books and reference works.
Medical & nursing
Medline with Full Text offers indexing for over 4,800 biomedical journals, with full text for over 1,500 journals.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a robust collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals.
Business & economic
Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
Hoover's Online is an Internet-based suite of information resources that enables in-depth company and industry research.
ABI/INFORM Complete includes full text journals and newspapers from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports.
Political, law, legislation
Provides indexing and abstracting for 800 journals, with full-text coverage for 350 of those journals.
Public Administration Abstracts
Provides 60,000 bibliographic records going back to 1974, covering the most important journals within the public administration discipline.
Government information, education, labor, etc.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Provides access to a variety of government documents and legislation to all areas of the United States.