When you do research for an assignment, you will think about the types of sources you need to support your topic. While the internet has many sources you can use, research assignments may require more academic or scholarly sources. Academic sources are written by instructors, other researchers, professors, and experts in that field. They usually have more complicated language and provide references or other sources they use to support their topic in the form of citations. Academic sources can most easily be found in library databases than on the internet.
You can find academic databases on the GCC Library website by:
A comprehensive image database for educational and scholarly use. Artstor images are now hosted on the JSTOR platform.
JSTOR hosts an unparalleled range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. It is the most comprehensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use, with many rare and important collections that are available nowhere else.
Includes full-text articles from academic journals, open research reports, Artstor images, and primary sources, supporting research and teaching across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
NEW for Fall 2023: Access has been expanded through the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection; all Artstor content has been migrated to the JSTOR platform.
See descriptions of all included JSTOR collections here.
See information about the new Artstor experience on JSTOR here.
Topics covered include archaeology, art, architecture, classics, economics, film studies, folklore, history, literary criticism, music and religion.
Locate books, articles and more in the Glendale College Libraries.
Peer-reviewed/academic articles in addition to newspaper, magazine, and trade journals from all subject areas.
ProQuest also includes "ProQuest Ebook Central" - an ebook database.
If you have a topic you would like to explore, you will want to develop keywords to search the library databases. You can create keywords by determining the main ideas in your research question or topic.
Research Topic Example:
I want to find resources to support my argument that social media causes negative body image in women.
From my topic, I need to look at WHAT is important, WHO I'm talking about, and WHERE is it happening.
My keywords can be: WHAT: body image; WHO: women; and WHERE: social media
Note: We can put body image and social media in quotation marks to search them as phrases: "body image" AND women AND "social media"
To find editorials as your document types, simply select "editorials" in the "Document type" menu at the bottom of the Advanced Search page of the databases like ProQuest or US Newsstream.
These videos from ProQuest Research Companion provide guidance on how to find information for any research project.
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