Library Search Strategies: April Chatham-Carpenter

Table of Contents The Basics UNISTAR Find Articles @ UNI Opposing Viewpoints Scholarly Articles Research Advice

The Basics

Find Topic Summaries with:  CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides 25 -30 page overviews of
current issues, statistics, graphs, and opposing viewpoints.

Find Books with UNISTAR

Find Magazine Articles with Panther Prowler

Find Newspaper Articles with LexisNexis

Find Articles @ UNI

• Academic Search Elite
  • large database - covers many topics
• UNI Databases by Field of Study
  • over 100 individual databases arranged by subject – good source for finding scholarly/academic articles
• Academic OneFile
  
  • large database - covers many topics
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
  • communication database
• Google Scholar
  • multi-topic database of scholarly/academic articles
     
• If using Google Scholar off-campus:
  • click on Scholar Preferences
  • type "Northern Iowa" in the "Library Links" box
  • click on Save Preferences
     

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center offers an array of online resources on controversial topics.  Content includes essays from opposing viewpoints, encyclopedia entries, news articles, magazine articles, research articles, and statistics.
 

Scholarly Articles

Try Academic OneFile

• After getting search results, choose articles from the "Academic Journals"
• Choose the “longer” articles
• Scholarly articles should have either a bibliography/footnotes or footnotes.

Try Academic Search Elite

• Check the box “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals”
• Search
• Choose the “longer” articles
• Scholarly articles should have either a bibliography/footnotes or footnotes.
   

Try Panther Prowler by Field of Study
with over 40 different fields of study including:

• Business
• Communication
• Criminology
• Education
• Environmental Science
• Film and Television
• History
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Women's Studies