Research Guides: WRT 205: Writing, Ethics, and Civic Discourse (Spring 2020): Home

About this Guide

The resources on this guide are intended to help you immerse yourself in your topic and to identify a number of strong, related sources you can work with. It is not exhaustive, but meant as a starting place. If you are still having dificulty finding sources, contact a librarian! You can reach out to Patrick directly or you can get help any time from other SU Libraries staff.

Patrick WIlliams
Humanties Librarian / Digital & Open Scholarship Lead
jpwill03@syr.edu

Reference / Background Sources for Making Connections & Generating Keywords

In-depth subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks & guides

Oxford Reference Online
Full-text reference books--encyclopedias, subject dictionaries, handbooks, guides--in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences

Reporting and Documentation on Current Events

Video Resources

Academic Video Online
Streaming videos, including documentaries, newsreels and programs, interviews, and performances, on a wide range of subjects from providers such as CBS, Universal, and The Open University.
Kanopy
One of the largest academic streaming video collections in the market, containing tens of thousands of educational titles, and also U.S. and international feature films

Subject & Format Specific Databses

Education Source
Articles, books, and papers in many areas of education research and practice.
Communication Source
Publications covering advertising, discourse, linguistics, media studies, speech-language pathology, and other communication fields.
GreenFILE
Publications covering the environment, sustainability, green buildings, energy, recycling and more.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
Covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention, and rehabilitation.
Race Relations Abstracts
Covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Index and abstracts to articles covering women and gender studies, including education, employment, family and community, medicine and health, social policy, media, biography, history, and more.
PsycArticles
Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology in areas including animal behavior, cognition, memory, neuroscience, perception, physiological psychology, psycholinguistics, psychometrics, social and personality psychology.
Health and Medicine
Nursing and allied health journals and publications
MEDLINE
Journals in the areas of clinical and experimental medicine, nutrition, dentistry, pathology, psychiatry, toxicology, health administration and nursing.
Alt-Press Watch
Alternative and independent press newspapers, magazines, and journals, from 1970 to present; included in the TDM Studio text visualization dashboard; please see the ProQuest TDM Studio guide for access information.
Political Science Database
Journals in political science and international relations.
ProQuest Congressional
Indexes information produced by or pertaining to the United States Congress from 1789 to the present.

Major Interdisciplanary Databases

SUMMON, the library's cross-database search tool searches over 500 different databases.

ProQuest
Databases covering a broad range of subject areas including business, economics, education, humanities, literature, news, social sciences, science and technology and more.
EBSCO
Search across EBSCO hosted databases, covering journal literature, ebooks, images, archival collections, numerous subjects and formats, across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and citations of journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents covering science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text archive of scholarly publications, including ebooks, in mathematics, science, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.