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
Select and focus your research topic
1. Have you chosen a topic related to your assignment?
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 - do you know someone who works in the field?
- Use database features to focus your research question
Start here
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window** Until June 30, 2023, due to the COVID-19 crisis, JSTOR is providing free access to a much greater number of journals. **
Back volumes for 880 journals from the very first issue but excluding the most current 2-5 years. General subject areas include art & architecture, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, language & literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology and statistics. - Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMulti-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
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle 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 subscriptions.
Databases & Scholarly Articles
Library Databases may contain:
- scholarly articles
- newspapers or magazines
- images or historical documents
- full-text books