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.
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.
Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads. Instructions: https://campusguides.glendale.edu/socialexplorer
Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more. Easily add your own data for further impact.
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.
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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