McNair Scholars

Course Specific Resources

Google Scholar

An excellent way to perform cited reference searching for literature reviews. Contains scholarly information on a variety of topics. If you're off-campus, make sure you link Google Scholar into the library's databases.

 

STEM databases

Science Citation Index

ScienceDirect

SciFinder

Web of Science

MathSciNet

 

Psychology, sociology, social work, criminal justice databases

PsycINFO

PsycARTICLES

SocINDEX with Full Text

Political Science Complete

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text

 

Medical/Nursing databases

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Medline with Full Text

Education databases

ERIC

Education Research Complete

Communications/Linguistics databases

Communication & Mass Media Complete

Academic Search Complete

 

Humanities databases (history, Indigenous studies, African-American Studies, etc.)

America: History and Life

Historical Abstracts

JSTOR

Humanities International Complete

Project Muse

 

Citing your sources

Use Zotero to help manage your citations and help put together your bibliography! Zotero is an online bibliographic management tool provided through UW Oshkosh. With Zotero, you can automatically export citations from databases like Academic Search Complete, Search@UW, and Google Scholar, then automatically generate bibliographies and in-text citations in over 1,000 continuously updated styles such as APA, MLA, Chicago, and more.

Link to Zotero

Link to FAQs on Zotero