Research & Teaching Services Librarian
Finding Peer Reviewed and Scholarly Articles About Your Topic
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowGood for scholarly articles, also contains some magazine and newspaper articles too! It is good for most research topics. Includes the article text most of the time and when it is not, it has FindIT @ BSU which will help you find the text. You can limit your search to peer reviewed articles. If your topic relates to a specific area of study you might consider one of the databases listed in the Discipline Specific Database area below.
Discipline Specific Database
Finding Books
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OneSearch This link opens in a new windowGood for both books and articles. This is where you would go to find books in our library's collections. You will want to capitalize Boolean operators (e.g. AND, OR, NOT) and put quotes around phrases. It has a Scholarly & Peer Review facet in the left column of the results list. You can also narrow by content type (e.g. books, video recordings, etc.).
Finding Different Points of View
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Access World News This link opens in a new windowNews from around the world including editorials and opinion pieces. You can limit to a country and state. To limit to editorials put editorial OR opinion in a separate search and select Section from the dropdown box.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowContains newspaper articles including editorials, which are a good source for seeing what arguments are being made about issues. To limit to editorials, click on News in the grey bar above the search box and then click on the Advanced Search link below the News search box. Scroll down until you see the Section box and enter "Editorial" into the box. Scroll back up and enter your terms and click on the blue magnifying glass button.
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Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new windowContains overviews of more than 500 topics which provides background information, both pro and con arguments, as well as a guide to critical analysis for each topic. You can either browse or search topics.
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ProCon.orgProvides a list of a wide variety of topics along with an introduction to them. Topics include things such as bans on fur clothing, free college, sanctuary cities, zoos, milk drinking, and binge watching