Library: TECH230: Technology & Society: General

Tips for completing your Short Papers

1. A minimum of one reference MUST be used to support each Short Paper discussion. We suggest starting your search in the Library's OneSearch tool or a few of the "First Picks" subject-specific databases. Also, review the tutorials that follow and please don't hesitate to contact the librarians for help developing a search strategy.

2. View the Library's Evaluating Sources tutorial for help with selecting credible sources.

3. APA citations are required. Visit our APA Style Help page to learn how to properly cite your sources.

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Technology & Sociology Research Databases

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Science & Technology Databases (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Searches 15 science and technology databases simultaneously: Advanced Technologies & Aerospace, Agriculture Science, Biological Science, Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Science & Technology, Career & Technical Education Database: Science & Technology, Computer Science, Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, India Database: Science & Technology, Materials Science, Military, Research Library: Science & Technology, Science, and Telecommunications.
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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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Social Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
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ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences and Physical Sciences Collections This link opens in a new window Access to over 1,550 full text journals in health & life sciences, chemistry, computer science, physics, mathematics, and earth & planetary sciences. On the results page, green icons mean the full text is available (white means abstract only). Please note: Articles are available from 1995 to present only.
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eBooks on subjects in business and technology:

Skillsoft This link opens in a new window Note: This database has scheduled downtime every Sunday from 1-3 pm ET. Please plan ahead. The full STEM Bundle includes access to: Business, Engineering, & IT eBooks, IT & Desktop 3-5 minute videos, book summaries of popular books on leadership and business, and the Leadership Channel, which contains videos and live events.
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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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Learn more about finding and downloading eBooks:

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Skillsoft This link opens in a new window Note: This database has scheduled downtime every Sunday from 1-3 pm ET. Please plan ahead. The full STEM Bundle includes access to: Business, Engineering, & IT eBooks, IT & Desktop 3-5 minute videos, book summaries of popular books on leadership and business, and the Leadership Channel, which contains videos and live events.
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Films On Demand (Technology & Society) The Technology & Society collection of the Films On Demand database includes over 900 full-length streaming videos in the field of technology.
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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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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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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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OneSearch

Find articles, eBooks, etc.

Using Google Scholar: Finding Peer Reviewed Resources (Transcript)

How to use this guide

This guide is designed to help you research the Short Paper topics for TECH230. The guide introduces a range of library resources available to you and recommends research databases in your subject area.

Background Information

Gallup, S. (2012). Technology trade fair [Photograph].

Technology and society EBSCO Research Starters provide background information on many topics from the Salem Press Encyclopedia.

Selected Resources

eBooks
Journals

Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology Bailey, D. E., & Leonardi, P. M. (). Technology choices: Why occupations differ in their embrace of new technology. MIT Press.
Technology & Sustainability Denton, P. H. (2014). Technology and sustainability. Rocky Mountain Books.
Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality Woolgar, S. (2002). Virtual society? Technology, cyberbole, reality. Oxford University Press.

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society (BSTS) A peer reviewed journal providing a means of communication within as wide of a spectrum of the STS community as possible, including faculty and students from sciences, engineering, the humanities, and social science.
Journal of Educational Technology & Society A peer reviewed journal exploring issues affecting educators & developers of educational systems, including artificial intelligence researchers. (full text from 2004 to present)
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society A peer reviewed journal publishing informed and rigorous work that takes risks, insightfully challenges established conceptual orientations and methods, and speaks boldly.
International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society: Annual Review A peer reviewed journal exploring innovative theories and practices relating technology to society, and offering a meeting point for technologists with a concern for the social and social scientists with a concern for the technological. (full text from 2014 to present)
Science, Technology and Society A peer reviewed journal drawing from a variety of disciplines involving science and technology, technology management, environmental studies, energy studies, and gender studies.