Research- What is it?
Use this course guide to help build sources for your research project
If at any time you feel confused or frustrated, please ask for help!
Research requires:
- time
- patience
- focus
- initiative
- reasoning
- analysis
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Select and focus your research topic
1. Have you chosen a topic related to your major?
2. Need help forming search terms? Try:
- Writing a sentence about your topic
- Pull out important words
- Think of other key terms outside of the sentence
- Talk to other people about it--perhaps someone who works in the field.
- Use database features to focus your research question
Start here
- Academic Search Complete Multi-disciplinary academic resource. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language, arts, literature, and medicine. Includes scholarly full-text articles from over 7,300 sources, with an additional 1,000 full-text sources. Indexes more than 10,000 periodicals
- Congressional Quarterly Electronic Library Online, full-text of the CQ Researcher and the CQ Weekly. Includes issue reports on topics in the news, plus legislative information. Please logout when finished searching.
- Newspaper source Cover to cover full-text for 35 U.S. and international Newspapers, plus SELECTED full-text from more than 300 regional U.S. newspapers, major international newspapers, syndicated columns and television and radio transcripts. Also includes abstracts for major national papers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.
- Google Scholar Google scholar is a specialized Google service that searches the web for material that MAY be scholarly. Using the special link above and signing in with your WTAMU ID provides free access to full-text of items located in WTAMU's proprietary databases.
- Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory Comprehensive international list of journals, magazines, newspapers, and online full-text electronic references. For each title indicates subject area, publisher, publication schedule, where indexed/abstracted, if peer reviewed and more. Search by title, ISSN, publisher, subject, keyword, dates, and more.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library Full-text, searchable access to more than 175 specific encyclopedias in many subjects, including business, social sciences, history, biography, religion, popular culture, and much more.
Search Library Catalog by keyword, title, etc.
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