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English 300 - Foss
Course Specific Resources
Possible Sample Topics:
world-wide dispersal of invasive species from global transportation
Help with picking a Topic
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Background Resources for Topic (Just for background-- allows you to research in databases)
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.
Provides access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content including science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.
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.
Wikipedia isn't evil if you're using it just to get acquainted with the basics of your topic, keywords, etc. Then move on and find better sources to use and cite.
Newspaper Databases
LexisNexis Academic provides access to 5,000 publications on a wide range of topics. Business resources also include company financials, SEC Filings and reports, directories, and accounting journals.
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national and international newspapers, in addition to full text for more than 200 regional newspapers.
Education News Sources (also try using Site:.edu online for example, 'Search phrase site:.edu' then click on news'
Professional/Educational Sources
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
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.
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals.
Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Educational Administration Abstracts
Educational Administration Abstracts contains more than 190,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
Academic Search Complete contains full text, indexing and abstracts, monographs and reports from more than 13,000 publications.
Multidisciplinary
Sustainability
Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 including full text from over 900 journals.
GreenFILE provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records related to global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
The world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians with over 1.3 million bibliographic records.
Search for references and cited references in the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
A large collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information.
Biological Abstracts provides indexing for over 5 million records in life sciences journals from 4,000 international journals including agriculture, ecology, pharmacology, public health and toxicology.
BioOne is a unique aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals, published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
Civic Engagement (Possible search terms: laws, legislation, policy, public policy, regulation)
Search in only Government resources online by adding site:.gov after your search term.
For example: voting laws site:.gov
Public Administration Abstracts
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
More Political Science and Government Databases
Intercultural Knowledge
Intercultural Knowledge and Competence "is the understanding of one's own culture as well as cultures beyond one's own; the recognition of the cultural values and history, language, traditions, arts, and social institutions of a group of people..." Taken from the USP Teaching Resources Website.
Keywords: values, history, arts, language--verbal/non-verbal, communication, rituals-- religious etc., institutions, symbols, (name of relevant cultural group). "cultural groups", "cultural factors", "cultural differences"
Tip: as you research, consider: what different cultural groups are part of your discussion? How does their history factor into your topic? How might their traditions factor into your topic? How might their language factor into your topic? How might their social institutions factor into your topic?
Tip: Try a general search for your sub-topic, simply scroll through your results, skim the abstracts, paying attention to any mention or allusion to any of the above questions/ points.
Tip: If using a specific database isn't bring up results, try going to the Search@UW advanced search. (try limiting to the last 5 years) Example.