Your Librarian
Todd Vandenbark
Contact:
todd.vandenbark@wartburg.edu
319-352-8244
Article Sources
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ProQuest Central
Multidisciplinary, mostly full-text database of newspaper, scholarly, and trade articles. -
Google Scholar
Search across disciplines and sources to locate articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites. -
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary full-text academic journals, books, and primary sources (usually excludes the past 2-5 years).
Search with OneSearch
Limit to types of articles, such as newspapers, scholarly journals, etc, on the left-hand side once you see the search results.
Search on Google Scholar
Evaluating What You Find
What is it? Why do I care? What does it really say?
You answer these three questions every time you use a source, whether you know it or not. As you choose sources for everything from 1st-year courses to major-specific research courses to real life, notice how you answer these questions to ensure your sources are really meeting your needs.
Quick reference for the three questions:
- What is it: What is the source type and author credibility?
- Quick Wikipedia checks are okay!
- Why do I care: Does the source type and author credibility meet your needs?
- Decide this at the beginning so you know whether to investigate or find something better.
- What does it really say: Perceive how the word choices influence the knowledge.
- How slanted the word choice is can make a difference in how or why you would use it.
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Evaluation review: Foundations of ResearchNeed a refresher on how to use the three questions for evaluation? Click here.