Research Process: Research
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Research Guides
If your research topic requires you to use more specialized resources, take a look at our Research Guides.
Find Articles
Once you have some keywords in mind, you'll be ready to search the Library's databases. Here are some good, general databases where you might begin your research:
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Covers all subject areas. Has a mix of magazines and journals including many that are peer-reviewed. Also includes a few major newspapers.
- Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Gale Academic OneFile has over 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, the majority in full-text, from the world's leading journals and reference sources. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Access news, business, and legal sources. These include regional, national, and international newspapers, news wires, broadcast transcripts, non-English language news sources, magazines, trade journals, business publications, SEC filings, law reviews, statutory, administrative and case law.
- CIA World Factbook This link opens in a new window
Provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Find Books
Search the Library's catalog for books. The three most common methods of searching are demonstrated below:
