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Introduction
These sources are written by experts for other experts. They tend to be the presentation of discipline specific research that does a deep dive into particular aspects of a topic.
Why use these sources:
- Judges will give the most weight to these types of sources.
- The peer-review process adds to the reliability of these sources
- Articles written by experts and reviewed by other experts in their field before they are published.
- High-level study of systems at play in countries of origin.
Questions to ask yourself:
- What department on campus would be researching issues related to your case?
- How do these scholars structure their research (each discipline will have slightly different standards, which will influence what they find and how they conduct their research)?
- What voices are missing from the scholarly analysis?
- When was the article published? And more importantly when did they conduct their research?
- The writing and publishing of an academic article can take years. Even information published in 2023 may already be out-of-date depending on what kind of information you need.
General
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary, full-text academic journals. Includes peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and much more.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to the back issues of scholarly journals as well as ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, some of which date back to the 1800s. Supports such disciplines as biological sciences, business and economics, education, history, language and literature, mathematics and statistics, music, political sciences and sociology.
*Please note that issues from the last 3 to 5 years for the majority of JSTOR's journals are not available. - Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of more than 7000 online research journals covering many subject areas.
Sociology
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. It features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and lexicographers and contains abstracts for more than 1,300 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
- Sociological Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.
- PsycINFO 1887-Current This link opens in a new window
Abstracts the world's most significant professional literature in psychology and its applications.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers essential areas related to criminal justice, corrections, and criminology.
Political Science
- International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers the scholarly research in political science and related disciplines.
- Fuente Academica This link opens in a new window
A unique collection of scholarly journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. Offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy, and theology.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers essential areas related to criminal justice, corrections, and criminology.
- Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new windowProvides access to current bibliographic information and cited references, covering more than 1700 of the world's leading social sciences journals in a broad range of disciplines. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from leading natural and physical science journals. The ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts (science and social sciences), and cited references. Researchers can search the citation data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper and finding other, more recent papers that cite it.
Legal
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
Provides legal, news, and business information from 15,000 of the best business, news, and legal sources available.
- Legal Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. This database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
- Civil Rights and Social Justice This link opens in a new window
Containing publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, legislative histories on landmark legislation, briefs from relevant U.S. Supreme Court cases, and more, this database covers civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.
Environment
- Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
- AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports. Encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.
Education
- Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Includes abstracts and full text of articles and other publications in education research.
Psychology
- PsycINFO 1887-Current This link opens in a new window
Abstracts the world's most significant professional literature in psychology and its applications.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
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