General database of academic journals in the sciences and humanities. Includes full text scholarly / peer-reviewed articles.
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CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. The reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked.
Search terms will depend on your topic of course, but generally you will want to use the most important words related to your topic or what we call keywords.
Keywords may be terms you already know and use to describe your topic, but it may be helpful to look at some background information by looking in a related textbook, reading reference sources, or searching the web to find out what words are being used to describe this issue.
Brainstorm related words to the main keywords you have in mind, like synonyms, or words that have the same meaning. Some sources may be using different words to describe the same thing.
Now called Gale eBooks.
Multidisciplinary database of full text encyclopedias and reference sources for research and ready reference. Enables one search that covers all sources. Subjects include arts, sciences, medicine, and the humanities.
