Class Links
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowScholarly, multidisciplinary database containing more than 6,100 full-text journals, and indexing/abstracts for more than 10,100 journals.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowContains almost 1,000 full-text journals spanning multiple disciplines. Some journals go to back to the mid-1800's. There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issues and the issues available in JSTOR.
Finding Articles Checklist
- What is my research question or thesis?
- Write it out, or come up with several possibilities or a general overview topic if you don't have one yet. Prioritize answering this question, or at least coming up with a general topic, as soon as possible.
- What evidence do I need to answer my research question or prove my thesis true or false?
- Outline your argument or question. Break it down into small mini questions. For each one, ask the above question.
- Where is that evidence likely to live?
- Check the course Research Guide
- Check the Research Guide for your major
- Ask your librarian
- Ask your professor
- How can I access that evidence?
- Check the course Research Guide
- Check the Research Guide for your major
- Ask your librarian
- Ask your professor
