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Reference Materials | Databases & Indexes | Periodicals | Newspapers| Think Tanks| Debriefs
Reference Materials
- Contemporary World Issues STACKS
- Presents a digest of information on a current controversial topic. Every volume includes a selected bibliography,
- Matter of Fact: A Digest of Current Facts, with Citations to Sources.
- REF AG105.M37--An annual publication containing excerpts of statistical statements related to current social, economic, political, health, and environmental public policy issues.
- NPR's Justice Talking
- Great place to find opposing views on different topics--Sound Files only. Be prepared to listen!
- Opposing Viewpoints series. STACKS
- Presents both sides of contemporary issues. Each volume covering a separate issue. (Search Foley online catalog for "opposing viewpoints" as keywords to find these books.)
- Statistical Abstract of the United States. REF DESK (latest edition)
- DOCS REF US C3.134: 1897, 1910 - 11, 1920 - 21, 1925 - 74, 1976 - pres.
Web access: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract.html
Summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
- Merriam-Webster COMPLETE Online Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster COMPLETE Online Thesaurus
- Online Citation Guides/Style Manuals (APA, MLA, Chicago)
Databases and Indexes
Indexes and abstracting services will help you locate specific topics in journals and magazines. Indexes are arranged by subject headings and may also include authors and titles of articles.
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals in virtually every area of academic study.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- This database provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
- CQ Weekly
- Covers hot topics, with reports written for and about the U.S. Congress
- ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center )
- Contains over 2,200 digests, references for additional information, citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. Articles with accession numbers beginning with ED are also available downstairs at the Foley Center Library in microfiche.
- ProQuest Direct
- Full-text and full-image format covering a wide range of subject areas. Newspapers are also covered, including selected Washington State newspapers.
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- 550 full text journals, including more than 500 peer-reviewed titles--covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Periodicals
http://vr8pu8ke6q.search.serialssolutions.com/- Click here to search for subject-specific periodicals!
- Brevity
- Creative non-fiction articles--click on the author's name to access full-text
- Newspapers
Newspapers often provide coverage of current issues and social trends.
- Alternet.org
- Alternative news--for the reality-based community!
- Alt-Press Watch
- Alternative & independent press magazines, newspapers, and journals
- The Black Commentator
- Exceptionally focused resource on important issues, somewhat difficult to search.
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Ethnic, minority, and native press newspapers, magazines & journals: coverage from 1990-present
- National Newspapers
- For those fact-based news stories from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor.
- New York Times Index REF INDEX AI21.N44
- New York Times Index--from 1913 to the present.
- Some years of the index are on microfilm. The Prior Series (REF INDEX AI21.N43) covers 1851 - 1906, 1911.
- Newslink
- Provides access to newspapers and other media resources on the web.
- Newspaper Source
- Selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, full text television & radio news transcripts, along with selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
- ProQuest Newspapers
- For those fact-based news stories from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor.
- Spokesman Review
- Latest two weeks in Periodicals. Web: www.spokesmanreview.com
- Wall Street Journal Index PER HG1.W26, 1979 - present
- Think Tanks
The entities below can supply evidence-based reports with opinions on your chosen topics. Remember, they WILL be biased.
- The American Civil Liberties Union
- For liberal viewpoints
- The American Enterprise Institute
- For conservative viewpoints on virtually every topic
- The Brookings Institution
- For liberal viewpoints
- The Cato Institute
- Libertarian, pro-business, anti-regulation viewpoints
- Epic
- For electronic privacy issues
- The Heritage Foundation
- For conservative viewpoints
- People for the American Way
- For liberal viewpoints
- The Rand Corporation
- Conservative on Defense issues, liberal on Education issues
- Applied Library Research Assignments
These are designed to introduce students to the basic elements of undergraduate-level library research.
- Assignment A
- If you're working on a paper, this will help you map-out your strategy.
- Assignment B
- If you're NOT working on a paper, this will help you build basic research skills.
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