Books/Book Chapters
Peer-Reviewed/Scholarly Articles
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
- Click on Choose Databases (above the search boxes) to search SocINDEX with Full Text and Business Source Premier along with other Ebsco Databases.
- Select Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals under the Limit your results header to limit to only scholarly articles.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
- Select Peer Reviewed Journals from the Limit to options to limit to only scholarly articles.
- Science Direct This link opens in a new windowAccess to full text of over 2,500 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in the areas of: Biochemistry; Business and Management; Genetics and Molecular Biology; Chemistry; Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine; Psychology; and Social Science. Includes recently-accepted articles in press.
- Note: AND, OR, NOT must be entered in all uppercase. (See further details.)
- Note: Journals in Science Direct are scholarly/peer-reviewed.
Newspapers/Magazines/Blogs
Newspapers/Magazines
- The Atlantic
- In addition to the monthly magazine, explore the The Atlantic web site for daily updates.
- New York Times - Academic Pass This link opens in a new windowUse the TimesMachine site to explore over 150 years of Times journalism, as it originally appeared.
- Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
- Washington Post (1996-present) This link opens in a new window
- Additionally, explore the Newspaper guide for further resources.
Blogs
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Evaluating Sources
Evaluation of sources on the Internet
- Evaluation the potential sources through lateral reading of the website.
According to a study by Wineberg and McGrew (2017):
"Historians and students often fell victim to easily manipulated features of websites, such as official-looking logos and domain names. They read vertically, staying within a website to evaluate its reliability. In contrast, fact checkers read laterally, leaving a site after a quick scan and opening up new browser tabs in order to judge the credibility of the original site."
- Evaluate your sources using SIFT and SCARAB Methods (Evaluating Sources, McHenry County College)