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:
Locate books, articles and more in the Glendale College Libraries.
News sources including newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.
Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports, and downloads. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more.
Instructions: https://campusguides.glendale.edu/socialexplorer
History and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
A comprehensive image database for educational and scholarly use. Images are sourced from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. Artstor images are now hosted on the JSTOR platform.
Films On Demand is an educational streaming video resource. It provides access to more than 40,000 quality, curriculum-focused programs from more than 1,000 acclaimed producers, including BBC, PBS, NBC News, ABC News, National Geographic, A&E, and Films for the Humanities & Science.
Kanopy is a streaming media platform that offers a high-quality range of content that includes films, documentaries, and specialized academic content. It is an instructional resource. - - Request License Purchase.
If you want to find articles in library databases, you need to search with keywords or search terms. Keywords are the main ideas of your research topic.
Research Topic Example:
I want to find resources on the effects of divorce on the stress level of children in the United States,
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: WHO: children of divorce; WHAT: stress; and WHERE: United States
Note: We can put children of divorce and Unites States in quotation marks to search them as phrases.
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