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Liberal Studies Research Databases

The following databases are recommended for research in this course. Click on a database name to search it. Note: For your final paper you need to use at least 6 peer-reviewed sources.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window The world's largest academic, multi-disciplinary database with full text journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, eBooks and videos. Meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
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ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Search ALL ProQuest databases at once. Covering more than 160 subject areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database and contains a diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. Encompasses business, science & technology, health, social sciences, arts & humanities, and news.
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SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window An interdisciplinary database that contains over 1,000 full text, online journals in the fields of business, education, health, the humanities, law enforcement, criminology, and other social sciences. Several of these journals are the most authoritative and influential in their fields. Access from 1999-present.
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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of sociology, its scope includes subjects such as abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, religion, rural & urban sociology, social psychology, and social work, to name a few. Contains full text for more than 890 journals, 850 books, and over 16,800 conference papers.
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Multidisciplinary eBook databases:

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary eBooks representing a broad range of subjects.
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Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window eBooks on a range of subjects such as business, information technology, education, engineering, health, history, humanities, life & physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.
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Alexander Street: Academic Video Online‎ This link opens in a new window A large multidisciplinary collection of streaming videos. Includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, award-winning films, including Academy® and Emmy® winners, newly released films, and archival material previously unavailable.
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Films On Demand This link opens in a new window Full-length streaming videos in the humanities, social sciences, business, health, medicine, sciences, and mathematics fields.
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ImageQuest (Britannica) This link opens in a new window Nearly 3 million rights-cleared images from more than 50 collections including Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, and the National Geographic Society.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
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Click on a database name to search:

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
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Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window The largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world, this database contains articles, maps, images, videos, and yearbooks from 1993 to present. Use it instead of Wikipedia for your research!
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Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window More than 50 reference eBooks in business, communications, history, law, literature, medicine, nation & world, science, and technology.
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Using Google Scholar: Finding Peer Reviewed Resources (Transcript)

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Globalization Reader
Available for up to 3 simultaneous users. Click on PDF Full Text. Do NOT click on “Download" or your classmates will not be able to access it. Then, click on “Save Pages” or “Email pages” at the top. Email or save pages/chapters as a PDF. [The publisher allows you to save/print a limited number of pages.] When you are done, close the eBook to allow others to access it.
Blackwell Companion to Globalization
Available for up to 3 simultaneous users. Click on PDF Full Text. Do NOT click on “Download" or your classmates will not be able to access it. Then, click on “Save Pages” or “Email pages” at the top. Email or save pages/chapters as a PDF. [The publisher allows you to save/print a limited number of pages.] When you are done, close the eBook to allow others to access it.

Helpful Tips & Tutorials

Library Overview (Video)
Note Taking From Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Writing Process Overview (Excelsior OWL) Takes you through the different steps of the writing process, including developing a topic, finding your voice, revising & editing.

Peer Reviewed Articles: What Are They? Tips for determining what a peer reviewed article is and how to find them in the library databases.
Parts of a Peer Reviewed Research Article

Creating an outline for a research paper Video by Rasmussen College
Abstracts Handout from the UNC-Chapel Hill Writing Center

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