Databases provide you with access to a wide range of articles that can be used as resources for your paper. When searching in the database, keep in mind the terms listed below. They will assist you in navigating the databases and locating resources.
By selecting the full text box in a database, you are ensuring that the database will only retrieve articles that are available in their complete format. If you do not select the full text box, you will still receive results, but you may only receive the citations.
Articles that are submitted to a scholarly journal must first be evaluated by an editorial team for the journal. This team reviews the article in order to verify that the research is authentic. If you know that you must use scholarly journals for your assignment, you should select this box.
An abstract is a short summary, detailing the main idea of a journal article. Searching within the abstracts of articles can assist you in locating information that is pertinent to your topic.
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Points of View Reference Center [OSU]This link opens in a new windowProviding a balance of materials from all viewpoints, Points of View Reference Center contains many topics with an overview, point, and counterpoint. For each topic, this database also offers a Guide to Critical Analysis, which helps the reader evaluate controversial topics. This database includes essays, leading political magazines, newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books, as well as guides for writing position papers, developing arguments and debating.
A comprehensive database which includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works.
JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
is a research methods tool that covers quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. SRMO assists users design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.
Anderson, Rosemarie and William Braud. Transforming Self and Others Through Research: Transpersonal Research Methods and Skills for the Human Sciences and Humanities. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
