World Book OnlineLinks to an external site. *Popular* - The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. World Book is publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia Britannica Links to an external site.*Popular* - Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting research.
Professional and Scholarly Sources on all Topics
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)Links to an external site.*Popular*- Academic Search Completecontains full text for nearly 9,000 journals and magazines. Thismulti-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study and is a great starting point for all research.
ProQuest CentralLinks to an external site. *Popular* - Contains thousands of journal and magazine articles across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.
Psychology Databases
Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection (EBSCOhost)Links to an external site. *Popular* - This contains articles from over 530 scholarly and peer-reviewed journals covering topics in the behavioral sciences, including psychiatry and psychology, observational and experimental methods, anthropology, emotional and behavioral characteristics, mental processes, and more.
Add site:edu for academic websites, for example, roman portrait sculpture site:edu
Google Scholarsearches specifically for scholarly materials such as journal articles, research reports, dissertations and theses, preprints, technical reports, patents, manuscripts in preparation, working papers, and many other document types.
Google's goal is to make information accessible and useful, however, it is still up to you, as a researcher, to critically evaluate research material.
Thinks to keep in mind while using Google Scholar:
You may get a long list of results, but you will only have access to the text of articles that the IVC Library has paid subscriptions for, or that are freely available.
Not everything in Google Scholar is scholarly. Google Scholar searches academic websites (.edu) as well as journals and publisher websites. Search results can include PowerPoints, news announcements or unpublished materials as well as articles and books.
It is difficult to determine with 100% accuracy all that Google Scholar searches. Therefore, we do not know the breadth of what Google Scholar is indexing and consequently cannot judge the comprehensiveness or completeness of the results of a literature search.
We cannot tell how frequently items in Google Scholar are updated.
When you find a source that you'd like to use in the library databases, look for a "cite" option. Then select the correct writing style (probably MLA 9 or APA 7) and copy/paste the citation into your project.