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Argumentative Essay Research - Gerig
Argumentative Essay Research - Gerig
Assignment
Assignment
Databases
Databases
Video: Quick Tips & Shortcuts for Database Searching from Modern Librarian Memoirs
Teevan's Tip: Read the edges!
Handout: Database Research Basics from Black Hawk College
Specific
Gender Studies (Gale OneFile)
Gender Studies Collection provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Health and Wellness (Gale)
Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to many pertinent websites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness.
Psychology Collection (Gale)
This set explores what makes people “tick” from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops — and diminishes — over time. Your library’s users will have instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Religion and Philosophy Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines of interest to both researchers and general users. The database offers balanced content that covers topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.
War and Terrorism Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. The database offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
General
Canadian Reference Center (EBSCO) Grades 11 - 12
Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; over 87,900 full text biographies and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps, and flags. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Includes: Toronto Star, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Canadian Geographic, Canadian Living, Teacher Librarian.
General OneFile (Gale) Grades 11 - 12
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Canadian Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO) Grades 9 - 12
This full-text database is designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides information on 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers, with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics include the environment, human rights, race, substance abuse and many more. The database contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 400 main essays, leading political magazines, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. It also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. It provides the basis from which students can better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
SIRS (Proquest) Grades 11 - 12
SIRS delivers the pros and cons on today’s complex social issues. Critical current issues and enduring social issues are covered through full-text articles, multimedia, primary sources, government documents and reference material from over 1,800 national and international sources. All publications and are hand indexed to subject headings.
Online Encyclopedias from Oakridge
Online Encyclopedias from Oakridge
Salem Press (Password required. Type under "remote" password.)
Literature
History
Health
Science
Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Google Scholar facilitates a broad search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.
For each Scholar search result, Google attempts to link to a full version of the article, as opposed to just the abstract. These access links are labelled [PDF] or [HTML] and appear to the right of the search result.
Note the ❞ symbol below the article's description; it will give you the citation for the source
But ...
But ...
GS can’t really be used on its own in any subject if the goal is to do a robust literature review. If a student or faculty simply want to locate a few relevant papers, then yes GS is fine.
... it’s imperfect … [lacking] a proper peer-reviewing procedure, materials of a lower quality could also appear in the search results
[P]aid databases do enable a bit more refinement in searches (subject area etc.), while GS doesn’t seem to have quite so much control of search results
Peer review, publication in quality journals, and proper indexing [from paid databases] don’t guarantee that the information is true, but it’s a far better system than Google’s black box approach to GS.
Herther, N. K. (2017). Google Scholar: Library partner or database competitor?. Online Searcher, 41(5), 30–34
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