Finding Articles - English 1301 - Aguilar, Liz Ann: Maymester 2017

Keyword Searching

Use AND and OR to connect words.

When using both AND and OR, put the ORs in parenthesis.

Use the * symbol to get different endings for a word. For example, alcohol* will retrieve alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholics, and alcoholism

Examples of keyword searching:

recycling
energy drinks
diabetes and prevention
diabetes and prevention and pregnan*
global warming or climate change
alcohol* and (college* or universit*)

Databases

Health Reference Center Academic This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources. Integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical interviews; and reference books.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Explores in-depth a single "hot" issue in the news each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Every report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Important scholarly journals delivered as high quality page images and articles downloads are in PDF format. Coverage usually stops from 2 to 5 years prior to current year depending on each journal's publisher. Subjects include: African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, & Statistics.
Nexis Uni | LexisNexis Academic This link opens in a new window
Some full-text for items.
International in scope covering news, business and company information, health, legal cases/articles, Federal and State laws, and Federal regulations.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
Covers controversial topics in pro and con essays published in the following series: Opposing Viewpoints, Information Plus, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, Current Controversies, Opposing Viewpoints Digests, and Teen Decisions. Study tools and guidelines included.
World History In Context This link opens in a new window
Identify themes from antiquity to the present with extensive coverage of the 20th Century. Includes journal articles, maps, images and over 2,000 primary source documents.
Access World News Research Collection | NewsBank | Includes access to San Antonio Express-News This link opens in a new window
Includes access to San Antonio Express-News.
International, national, regional, state and local news content from all 50 U.S. states as well as more than 2,700 international news sources from 139 countries. News content may be included in its original published language or translated into English.
General OneFile This link opens in a new window
One-stop source for news and periodical articles. Includes the databases in General Reference Gold.

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English 1301 - Aguilar, Liz Ann: Maymester 2017: Finding Articles

Keyword Searching

Databases

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