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Find a wide range of books, articles, and other resources the library owns through the main search tool, Quick Search, found at the top of the ISU Library website.
Subject-specialist librarians have pulled together resources for specific classes. Use these to learn tips and gain easy access to relevant research tools and materials in your subject areas.
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"To come up with keywords, identify the most important words in your research question or topic... You have to consider the words that authors are using the write about a topic." Explore more keyword brainstorming strategies here.
This database covers almost all subject areas and is especially good at interdisciplinary areas. Good place to start for class assignments. It contains full text articles for more than 6,500 journals.
Leveraging the freedom of independently published grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals as a counterweight to corporate controlled mainstream media perspectives, Alt-Press Watch is the go-to place for alternative voices above the din of the profit driven news sources. With coverage dating back to 1970, the database features about a million articles from over 270 publications, offering a wide range of unfettered, critical coverage of the news. Alt-Press Watch tutorial
CMMC provides full-text, indexing and abstracts for hundreds communication journals covering related disciplines such as media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse. Many of the journals have searchable cited references.
Includes full-text of key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day. The collection contains 150,000 pages of rare archival content, including seminal texts, letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera.
Useful for finding pro/con arguments and facts on many of today's controversial topics. For each topic, the resource provides featured viewpoints, statistical information, pertinent websites, videos and images, and further references.
Literature in psychology and related disciplines. About 90% of the articles are peer-reviewed; also includes book chapters, reports, theses and dissertations.
An essential resource for ethnic and racial studies; provides information on articles from academic journals plus books, magazine and newspaper articles related to race and ethnic studies, race relations, cultural identity, immigration studies, and more.
Social Services Abstracts includes journals, abstracts, dissertations, and book reviews from 1979 to present. Focuses on social work, human services, and related areas.
Sociological Abstracts includes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers in sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.