Journals, Databases, Search Engines

Offers contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. Contains content from reference resources, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.

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Access Encyclopaedia Britannica, Gale, and ProQuest at no cost.

ProQuest gives you access to a wide range of popular academic subjects, from business and political science to literature and psychology; includes more than 5,000 titles (over 3,500 in full text) from 1971 forward.

Access a wide range of electronic and digital resources with your OC Libraries card, including databases, magazines, newspapers, and primary sources or data that you could use in a content or meta-analysis project. 

Other links to check out: 

• Opposing Viewpoints: Offers information about all sides of social issues. Content comes from pro/con viewpoint essays; primary source documents; court-case overviews; statistical tables, charts and graphs; and topic overviews.

• SIRS Issues Researcher: Provides background and current analysis necessary for the research and understanding of 320+ current and pervasive leading issues. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between on the most researched and debated social issues.

College Board has partnered with EBSCO to offer AP Capstone students access to EBSCO’s multidisciplinary research database with hundreds of thousands of mostly scholarly e-books and e-journals, many full-text; a great place to start your research.

Access EBSCO via your AP Digital Portfolio.

Offers high-quality, interdisciplinary journals, primary sources and books to support scholarship. Includes more than 1,500 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

JSTOR is currently offering 100 free articles. Register using your Google account.

Biomedical and life sciences journal that is also recommended for psychological science.

You can filter for free full-text articles.

Peer-reviewed journals in the fields of health sciences; social sciences & humanities; materials sciences & engineering; life & biomedical sciences.

Filter for open access articles.

Educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.

This is essentially a search engine which visualizes the connections between academic papers. You can search for a paper you have found and see how the paper fits into the academic discussion.

You can filter open access articles in the filters menu > Open Access > "All OA."

It's free and "better than Google Scholar." You can save your history too.

You can search metadata; to see examples of what you can search, click "Help" in the top menu.

Here you’ll find education data sets, data tools, reports, educator’s practice guides, summaries of completed and in-progress research and evaluation projects, videos, infographics, and more.

Journal of Student Research (JSR) is an academic, multidisciplinary, and faculty-reviewed journal of current research published by high school, undergraduate and graduate Students.

The High School Edition is a great place to take a look at model AP Research papers as well as other published scholarship by other students just like you!

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