Key Resources for Professional & Technical Writing
These links connect to library electronic databases containing articles on social science.
- Academic Search PremierA collection of articles on a huge range of topics.
Includes articles from popular magazines as well as scholarly journals. - CQ ResearcherA great place to search for topics relating to current social issues at the national level.
- ProQuest NewsstandSearch a large collection of full-text newspapers.
Articles go back to the early 1990s. - Google ScholarSearch the Google Scholar database, a selection of scholarly articles.
Not all will be available full-text, but you can get an idea of what articles might be useful for you.
Tip:
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- Scopus
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Database of peer-reviewed journal articles. Full text is not included, but Article Linker provides access to full-text articles when available.
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