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Agriculture -- American History -- Art

Biographies -- Biology -- Book Reviews -- Books at other Libraries -- Business Articles -- Business Data

Chemistry -- Children's Resources -- Communications -- Company Info -- Computer -- Concept Papers -- Current Issues

Drama -- Education -- General Research

Health Issues -- History -- International Studies -- Kentucky

Legal Research -- Literature -- Math Research

Music Recordings --Music Research (Articles)-- Music Reference

Newspapers -- Nursing -- Online Books

Philosophy -- Political Science -- Primary Sources -- Psychology

Reference Books -- Religion -- Science -- Social Work -- Sociology -- Spoken Word Recordings -- Sports & Sport Med

Tax Law -- Theater -- World History -- Women

 

AGRICULTURE
sample topics: genetically modified food, farm subsidies, agribusiness

Main Database:
  • Agricola -- good for scholarly material.  Has the standard EBSCO search screen.

Other Options

  • Academic Search Premier (ASP) - a database with variety and depth, and a mixture of popular and scholarly sources
  • CQ Press Researcher - Not a scholarly source, but provides excellent background on issues, and a pro/con synopsis.

 

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AMERICAN HISTORY

sample topics: slavery, prohibition, suffrage, Civil War, Federalism

Main Database(s):
  • America: History and Life - primarily citations, but with some linked full text
  • JSTOR - Full text scholarly archive database with excellent coverage of history

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ART
sample topics: Pre-Raphaelite, aesthetics, sculpture, Audubon

Main Database(s):
  • ARTstor - For images of all forms of art: paintings, sculpture, photography, etc.
  • Grove Art - Reference encyclopedia on art
  • JSTOR - For archived, peer-reviewed articles
  • Print resources - You can find Art Journal and ArtNews on the Mezzanine.

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BIOGRAPHIES

Sample topics: bios of politicians, authors, artists, celebrities

Main Database(s):
  • Biography Reference Bank - variety of source material, recently updated with a new, easier-to-use interface.
  • The Biography Resource Center subscription has been dropped. 

Other Options

  • ARTstor - source for photographs and portraits of many historical figures
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic - primarily newspaper articles on public figures
  • Literature Resource Center - source for literary biographies: writers, poets and other types of authors
  • Credo Reference - source for selections from Reference books: dictionaries and encyclopedias

 

BIOLOGY

Sample topics: cellular structure, environmental science, ecology, invertebrates

Main Database(s):
  • BioOne - scholarly journal articles
  • JSTOR - scholarly journal articles

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BOOK REVIEWS

Note: Search books reviews by title, the original publication date may affect database availability

Main Database(s):
  • Academic Search Premier - put "Books -- reviews" in the subject field of advanced search screen to narrow
  • JSTOR - click the Review box in the Advanced search to narrow

Other Options

  • Literature Resource Center
  • Print Resources on 1st Floor -- Book Review Digest and Book Review Index,  Excellent for finding reviews of older sources

 

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BOOKS AT OTHER LIBRARIES

Main Database(s):
  • First Search - this database shows holdings at libraries across the US

Other Options

  • KYVL - One the KYVL resources is a catalog of Kentucky public and academic libraries.

 

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BUSINESS ARTICLES
sample topics: Consumer behavior, business ethics, management techniques

Main Database(s):
  • ABI/INFORM - Scholarly business articles
  • JSTOR - Scholarly business articles

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BUSINESS DATA

Sample topics: Company history of Nike, Current financial information on Coca-Cola

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CHEMISTRY

Main Database(s):
  • JSTOR - general sciences module

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CHILDREN'S RESOURCES

Sample resources: Children's book plot synopsis, "If you like..." book suggestions, articles from youth magazines
Main Database(s):
  • Primary Search - same search screen as Academic Search Premier, but with content for younger users -- such as Ranger Rick and Highlights.

Other Options

  • Novelist - Gives classroom aids, book group ideas, author profiles, etc. 

 

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COMMUNICATIONS

Sample topics: bias, journalism, mass media, censorship

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COMPANY INFO

Sample topics: Company history of Nike, Current financial information on Coca-Cola

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COMPUTER

Sample topics: outsourcing, user interfaces, artificial intelligence

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CONCEPTS 

sample topics: For concept or definition papers on leadership, faith, skepticism,etc.

Main Database(s):
  • Credo Refrence - contains articles and entries from reference books: dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.

Other Options

 

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CURRENT ISSUES

Sample topics: Iraq, globalization, obesity, violence, gun control, global warming

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DRAMA/THEATER

Sample topics: theater criticism, dramatists

Main Database(s):

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EDUCATION

sample topics: special education, lesson planning, mainstreaming

Main Database(s):

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  • JSTOR - Scholarly articles focusing on Higher Education topics
  • CQ Press Researcher - for non-scholarly overviews of current education issues in the news
  • Novelist - Contains author database for reader's advisory, as well as guides for class discussion and books clubs for youth and adults.
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook - is not an article database; but provides acess to the Buros reference series on tests, in categories such as: personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor. (Yearbooks 9 - 15)
 

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GENERAL RESEARCH

Sample topics: current events, new products or technologies, popular culture and opinion, persuasive topics or speech topics

Main Database(s):

Other Options

  • JSTOR - only contains peer-reviewed journals; try an advanced search and select the subject areas that seem related to your search.

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HEALTH & MEDICINE
sample topics: AIDS, nutrition, exercise, wellness, nursing

Main Database(s):
  • CINAHL - an index of nursing and allied health sources
  • Health Source - use the Nursing/Academic version for academic and narrowly focused professional trade magazines

Other Options

 

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HISTORY

Sample topics: war, fascism, governments, disasters, parliament, congresses

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INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Sample topics: ethnicity, language, culture

Main Database(s):
  • JSTOR - database sections under advanced search include: African Studies, Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, Slavic Studies and Folklore.

Other Options

 

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LEGAL RESEARCH

Sample topic: Search by case name, copyright, tax law, etc.

Main Database(s):
  • Lexis-Nexis - select the "Legal Research" link.  Supports case research and law review research, so you can search specific cases

Other Options

  • JSTOR - articles from scholarly law journals.

 

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KENTUCKY

Sample topics: regional industry, news,

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LITERATURE

Sample topics: literary analysis, gothic, genre fiction, short story, Romanticism

Main Database(s):
  • JSTOR - scholarly lanuage and literature journals

Other Options

  • Academic Search Premier - contains over 90% of the titles carried by MLA.  Use this if your instructor recommended MLA Bibliography.

 

 

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MATH

Sample topics: History of mathematics, learning theories, math education

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MUSIC ARTICLES

Sample topics: Libretti, conducting, opera, world music, composition

Main Database(s):
  • JSTOR - scholarly full text articles

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MUSIC RECORDINGS

Sample searches: Mozart, Instrumental works, jazz

Main Database(s):

Other Options

  • Smithsonian Global Sound - music, including, jazz, world, blues, and folk.  Spoken word recordings, including oral histories, poetry, foriegn language, and interviews.

MUSIC REFERENCE

Sample topics: composer biographies, overviews of concepts -- notation, rhythm, etc.

Main Database(s):
  • New Grove Music Online - contains the online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and musicians, plus other Grove works

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ONLINE BOOKS

Sample topics: Computer guides and manuals, academic press books, self-help, research, literature classics, criticism

Main Database(s):
  • NetLibrary - the full text of books in electronic format.  They are not downloadable to e-book viewers.  E-books must be read online.

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NEWSPAPERS

Sample topics: Headlines, opinion, current issues, reviews

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NURSING

sample topics: pain management, training, alternative treatment, diabetes

Main Database(s):
  • CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health scholarly and professional sources
  • HealthSource - Nursing & Academic edition

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PHILOSOPHY

Sample topics: Culture, constructivism, art, logic, moral agent, autonomy
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PHOTOGRAPHY

Sample topics: faked images, Diane Arbus, Ansel Adams

Main Database(s):
  • ARTstor for samples of photography
  • JSTOR for articles dealing with art and photography
  • Grove Art - for Grove art reference books

Other Options

 

 

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POLITIAL SCIENCE

Sample topics: public administration, Marxism, capitalism,

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PRIMARY RESOURCES (original documents)

Sample topics: daily life, slavery, soldiers' experiences, common political views

Main Database(s):
  • Civil War Letters and Diaries - letters and diaries, previously published
  • Early American Imprints - early American pamplets and news
  • Early Encounters in North America - Contains images of Audubon art, frontier maps and descriptive drawings of plants and animals
  • North American Women's Diaries and Letters - focusing on the private lives of women, letters and diaries previously published

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PSYCHOLOGY
Sample topics: motivation, transferrence, development

Main Database(s):

Other Options

  • JSTOR
  • Professional Development Collection - is an education database, but many behavioral and counseling issues appear
  • Religion and Philosophy Collection - for pastoral counseling and spiritual formation

 

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REFERENCE BOOKS AND STATISTICAL DATA

Sample topics: literature reviews, definitions

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RELIGION, THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPY
Sample topics: Existentialism, narrative theology, Tillich, particular verses or books of the Bible, hermeneutics,

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SCIENCE
Sample topics: agribusiness, global warming, bioethics, composite materials, evolutionary biology, dark matter

Main Database(s):
  • BioOne - mainly biology and zoology, with some biochemistry
  • Encyclopedia of Life Science
  • JSTOR- contains several science modules within the JSTOR database: Biological Sciences, Botany & Plant Sciences, Developmental and Cell Biology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, General Science, Paleontology, Zoology

Other Options

  • AGRICOLA - primarily an agriculture database, but good for water and conservation issues
  • ACS - IMPORTANT: we no longer have full text access on the ACS Website.  Use it as a citation index to find items for Interlibrary Loan.

 

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SOCIAL WORK
Sample topics: "at risk" youth, recidivism, addiction, families, abuse

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SOCIOLOGY
Sample topics: cultural groups, communities, marriage, rituals

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SPOKEN WORD RECORDINGS

Main Database(s):
  • Smithsonian Global Sound

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SPORTS & SPORTS MEDICINE

Sample topics: motivation, performance-enhancing drugs, Title IX, endurance

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STATISTICS

Sample topics: population, census data, computational problems, teaching statistics

Main Database(s):

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  • NetLibrary
  • Other Subjects - check the literature of a specific field, such Education for topics in educational statistics

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TAX LAW & TAX RESEARCH

Main Database(s):
  • Lexis-Nexis - select the "Legal Research" link on the left side of the first search screen.  Select "Tax Law" from the Codes and Regulations section.

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WORLD HISTORY

Sample topics: World War I, alliances, trade, colonialism, World War II, crusades

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Women

Sample topics: Domestic violence, feminism, gender, women's health, sisterhood

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Updated: 28 March 2008 -- S. Riggs

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