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When researching, it's rare to find one perfect source that has all the information you need. Flexibility is key! Your search results should guide you to potential answers to your research questions. Learn how to be a flexible researcher by watching the video below.
Includes:
Full-text content,
Scholarly / Peer-Reviewed Publications,
Magazine / Popular Publications,
Trade Publications
provides an international mix of scholarly, professional, and consumer periodicals that cover over 150 subjects, including business, the sciences, medical, technology, literature, the arts, and history. Research Library is updated daily with new content and includes a deep backfile, providing users with deeper historical context. A key multidisciplinary resource, Research Library is built on renowned ProQuest vocabulary and indexing and brings all of these resources together through a single user-friendly interface.
Find articles from magazines, newspapers, and journals in the library's databases.
Use full-text articles NOT:
Why these databases?
Books provide an in-depth look at a topic. There you will find background and historical information on a subject, but a book will not have the most up-to-date information. Books are typically not a good information source for ENGL 1010 and 1020 assignments.
e-Books on a variety of academic subjects from leading academic publishers and university presses. Collection is primarily monographs but includes some reference titles.
Sources discovered in databases may lead you to credible websites.
Look at the website's About Us section to find who is responsible for the site if it is not apparent from the home page or you are not familiar with the organization.
For more help on evaluating websites, check out the Evaluating Web Resources guide.
Need statistics? The Data LibGuide has some recommendations.
Instead of using a generic search engine like Google or Bing search with one of these specialized search engines.