Subject and Course Guides: English 160 &161: Introduction to Library Research: English

Group Activity

Look at the three sources below. What do you see that is different about them? Is anything similar? Think about the following:

1. Who are the authors? What do you know about them?

2. What is the format of the article? For example, does it have different headings? Is it long or short?

3. Does the article contain citations and references?

4. What type of publications are these? (Newspaper articles, magazine articles, scholarly articles, blog posts, etc.)

5. Who are they written for?

Source A

Recommended Databases

Academic Search Complete
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APA PsycINFO
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
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JSTOR
Digitized back issues of scholarly journals with a rolling date of five years ago. Covers a wide variety of disciplines.
Collections of back issues of scholarly journals in the following disciplines: arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, and general science.
PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's to present.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. Pub Med includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Sociological Abstracts
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Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

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English 160 &161: Introduction to Library Research

Group Activity

Recommended Databases

Locations

Richard J. Daley Library

Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago

Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria

Crawford Library of the Health Sciences-Rockford

Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana