Scopus is an excellent tool for chasing forward an older paper or finding similar papers to what you are working on. You can find out what future papers cited the paper you just finished reading. Google Scholar has a similar function, but Scopus is usually better.
Use Article Linker to search for full-text across all databases. If the article isn't available, choose Request via ILLiad or use interlibrary services to request a copy from another library.
Multidisciplinary scholarly search engine. Covers peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, and other scholarly organizations. Includes links to USU resources when on campus.
Set up a Google alert for your research topic.
Google alerts will email you news articles, blog posts, and other online postings that are related to key words you want to monitor.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest archive of computer readable social science data.
Note: To use this database you need to create a free personal login while on campus, or while using the USU VPN. This account is active for 6 months, and then must be recreated. Instructions for installing the USU VPN.
ICPSR supports research in sociology, economics, political science, population studies, criminal justice, health care, education and more. Includes data sets from privately and publicly funded research, governmental and non-governmental agencies, opinion polls and other studies. As institutional members of ICPSR, USU faculty and students may use the archive of social science data. To download data, users need to create their own account to login. Once downloaded data can be analyzed with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata.
General quantitative data on an easy-to-use searchable platform. Covers thousands of sources and topics, with infographics that are easy to share or embed on a webpage.
Current and historical census data and demographic information for the United States with tools to create thematic maps, interactive maps, and customized reports.