Table of Contents The Basics UNISTAR [1] Find Articles @ UNI Opposing Viewpoints Scholarly Articles Research Advice

The Basics

Find Topic Summaries with:  CQ Researcher [2]
CQ Researcher provides 25 -30 page overviews of
current issues, statistics, graphs, and opposing viewpoints.

Find Books with UNISTAR [1]

Find Magazine Articles with Panther Prowler
[3]
Find Newspaper Articles with LexisNexis [4]

Find Articles @ UNI

• Academic Search Elite [5]
  • large database - covers many topics
• UNI Databases by Field of Study [6]
  • over 100 individual databases arranged by subject – good source for finding scholarly/academic articles
• Academic OneFile [7]
  
  • large database - covers many topics
• Communication & Mass Media Complete [8]
  • communication database
• Google Scholar [9]
  • 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 [10] 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 [7]

• 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 [5]

• 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 [6]
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