Other Guides You May Find Useful
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Building a Search WorksheetThis worksheet will help you build quality library catalog and database searches. Start by breaking down your topic into effective keywords and then evaluate the quality of your search results to locate scholarly resources.
Recommended Resources
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Britannica Academic
Britannica Academic provides access to high-quality, comprehensive reference information. Includes access to the Britannica encyclopedia, atlas, world data, the Classics, biographies, news, multimedia, and more. You can also use Britannica Academic to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. This database also includes the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary.
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CQ Researcher
A full-text database of Congressional Quarterly Researcher, presenting overviews of current topics. Coverage includes overviews, chronologies, pro and con points of interest, and bibliographies of additional resources.
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Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides full-text online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference book collections, including art, history, law, medicine, psychology, technology, bilingual dictionaries, and encyclopedias through a one-stop search platform. Search results often include articles from a wide array of publications and frequently present subject coverage from multiple perspectives. Using Credo Reference to approach a topic from different viewpoints can be a great way to expand your familiarity with the topic and it can help you develop new arguments and observations for your research.
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Gale In Context: Global Issues
Gale In Context: Global Issues supports global awareness and provides a global perspective while tying together authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Explore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more. Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more, Global Issues is updated daily and offers 250 country pages and more than 400 issue pages. It contains more than 6,000 viewpoint commentaries provide background and guidance on significant topics like Food Security, Genocide, Human Rights, Extreme Weather, and more. Global Issues is cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.
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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more on contemporary topics. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Opposing Viewpoints is cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Global Issues.
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Encyclopedia of American Social Movements
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781317471899Publication Date: 2015This four-volume set examines social movements across American history - from the great struggles for abolition, civil rights, and women's equality to the more specific quests for prohibition, consumer safety, unemployment insurance, and global justice. -
Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781442216068Publication Date: 2014The Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice contains over 300 entries alphabetically arranged for straightforward and convenient use by scholars and general readers alike. This reference is a collection of designated entries that describe, in detail, important diversity and social justice themes.
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Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database includes more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals with coverage across nearly all areas of academic study. In addition to its 8,500 full-text periodicals, the database features more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press from 1930 to the present.
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APA PsycArticles (EBSCOhost)
APA PsycArticles includes full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology with articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint - the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
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JSTOR
A multidisciplinary digital library that includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR; spanning more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Access also includes more than two million primary source documents.
And, with the incorporation of Artstor's collections, JSTOR is now home to more than two million images.
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O’Reilly for Higher Education
The O'Reilly for Higher Education digital platform includes more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, training videos, and much more. Users can search thousands of books simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding the information they need.
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PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
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SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
This sociology research database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus. Contains full-text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full-text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full-text for over 16,800 conference papers.
From the Library:
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America's News (NewsBank)
This collection provides access to more than 4,000 U.S. news sources, including current coverage and archives back to the 1980s. The platform draws from national, regional, and local news content, including access to more than 70 Virginia news sources, such as The Virginian-Pilot and Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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Newspaper Digital Subscriptions
Connect to the Newspaper Digital Subscriptions for Students, Faculty, and Staff guide to learn how to sign up for your personal subscription to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal through Norfolk State University.
These subscription services are available to all NSU Students, Faculty, and Staff for FREE by using your NSU email address at sign up.
Each subscription includes full access to the news source via their website or app and most also include archival materials
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Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCOhost)
This database of the world's major news content includes more than 860 full-text newspapers and more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
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Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. It incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection (NewsBank)
Updated daily, the Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection includes the following:
- A text archive 1985 - current
- Images of each paper from 2018 - current
- Blogs 2006 - 2019
- Web Edition Articles 2015 - current
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Virginian-Pilot Collection (NewsBank)
Updated daily, The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) Newspaper Collection includes the following resources:
- A text archive from 1990 - current
- Images of each paper from 2018 - current
- Blogs from 2006-2019
- Select video content available through links 2020 - current
Local News Sources:
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13 News NowWebsite of WVEC-TV offering news, weather, and sports in Norfolk, VA.
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Virginia Center for Investigative JournalismThe Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism is an independent, nonprofit news startup. They state their core mission is to produce stories covering underserved communities in Virginian, and distribute these stories to local news outlets for free. In 2024 they did a series on foster care in the Norfolk area.
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WAVY NewsNorfolk news and weather stories.
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WHROTheir mission statement: WHRO Public Media improves the civic, educational and cultural life of the citizens of Eastern Virginia through the production and distribution of important and impactful local, national, and educational content. WHRO states they are committed to ensuring local journalism thrives in the region.
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WTKRNews channel offering local news, weather, traffic, politics, and sports coverage in the Hampton Roads area.