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Use the resources on this page to investigate background information for your topic, to locate statistical information, and identify sources that will be helpful as you develop your paper or project.
Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on current events, including summaries and bibliographies. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the Congressional Quarterly tradition.
Provides full-text reference books in 20 subject areas. It includes over 180 titles and 65,000 images "powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context." coverage: Varies
Bowman Library has a large variety of books and ebooks that are chosen for their relevance to the courses offered. You can access ebooks directly from the library website whether your off or on campus. Books and ebooks are good for finding overviews and history of your topic. You don't need to read the whole book to get the information you need for your project; often one chapter of a scholarly book will cover the information you need.
Clean Energy | Sustainability |
Gender identity | Sustainable agriculture |
Renewable energy sources | Sustainable development |
Reproductive Rights | Women's rights |
Sex role | |
Solar energy |
Often your professor will ask you to use scholarly articles, academic articles, or peer-reviewed articles. These are generally all the same thing. They are written by scholars who are experts in their fields and are usually tied to a college or university. They are great for:
A full-text collection of more than 400 journals in business and the liberal arts, with especially strong coverage of business, finance, economics, history, regional studies, education, and sociology. (Our subscription includes the Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences IV, Business I, and Business II collections.) JSTOR is notable for the high quality of the journals it includes. The most recent three to five years of each journal are usually excluded from JSTOR, however.
Online newspapers, websites, and even Google Scholar, are all places to go for more information about your chosen topic. Remember there are ways to search online that can help you target a particular type of source. For example, the best way to search for articles in the New York Times is to use a SITE search in Google. In the Google search bar type site:nytimes.com leave a space, and then enter your topic keywords, and hit enter. All of the results will be from the New York Times. You can replace the NY Times URL with different URL, or with a domain, such as edu or gov to retrieve results from websites that end in those domains.