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
| PATS: Acronym for Evaluation indicators | |
| Purpose | Is the intent to INFORM or PERSUADE? |
| Authority | Scholar? Journalist? Experienced in the topic? Whatever it is, what does it mean in the context of history? Of a country? Of a time period? |
| Timeliness | Depends on your topic whether currency is important |
| Scope | Do you want something that covers the topic broadly, specifically, or in-depth? (e.g., respectively, encyclopedias, news or scholarly articles, and books) |