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This guide is intended to help you do research for your Introduction to Public Speaking class. If you do not find what you need, or need additional assistance, please contact a reference librarian at (508) 531-1394 or e-mail refdept@bridgew.edu.
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IS YOUR SOURCE CRAAP?
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CRAAP Test The CRAAP Test method helps you identify a credible source and also helps you evaluate sources to determine whether or not they are appropriate for your academic assignment.
Online Databases
Some tips for searching these databases:
- Some, but not all, of the records will have the full-text of the article attached. Click "Full Text Finder", or "Find Full-text" to find out if we have the article available in another database.
- These databases require a BSU login.
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Academic OneFileFull-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Content also includes ebooks, images, and videos. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
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Academic Search CompleteIncludes magazines, newspapers and journals from a wide variety of disciplines. You will also find some scholarly journals here.
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Global Issues in ContextGlobal Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information.
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Nexis Uni (formerly: LexisNexis Academic)* Nexis Uni will replace LexisNexis Academic on January 1, 2019.*
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. -
Opposing Viewpoints In ContextThis resource includes contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s social issues including pro/con viewpoint essays, topic overviews, primary source documents, biographies of social activists and reformers, court-case overviews , periodical articles, statistical tables, charts and graphs, images, podcasts, and more than 700 Greenhaven Press, Gale, Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner’s Sons® and U•X•L titles.
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More Library DatabasesClick here for a list of the other databases available through Maxwell Library
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Credo ReferenceNearly 3.5 million full text articles in 835 reference books from 108 publishers. Includes encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and subject-specific works.
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Gale Virtual Reference LibraryIncludes 320 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research, including arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, law, library science, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.
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