Research Guides: HC 120: Negotiating Change and Social Justice: Finding Articles

How to Read a Scholarly Article

Starting Places

ABI/Inform Collection This link opens in a new window
Comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline; features international coverage of companies and business trends around the world.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Publications covering a wide variety of academic disciplines. Includes peer-reviewed journals. Content from 1940 - present.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century This link opens in a new window
Contains Federal Government Records, including presidential records, military, and FBI Files, and Organizational Records and Personal Papers, including those of SCLC, SNCC, and CORE, offering unique documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th century fight for freedom. Content from 1898 - 1996.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed journals and popular publications covering business; includes trade journals, monographs, economic and industry reports, and market research.
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Content from 1981-present.
Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
Publications covering education; includes periodicals, yearbooks, books.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Includes law periodicals, the Congressional Record, U.S. Reports, trials, legal classics, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States treaties, the Federal Register and more.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Contains domestic and international citations, abstracts and some full text to book chapters, books, dissertations and journal articles dealing with psychology. Content from 1806 - present.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

See related Research Guides: PubMed via LHL and Making the Most of My NCBI
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide range of interdisciplinary fields; includes a broad array of social sciences journals. Content from 1983 - present.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Content from 1952 - present.

Suggested Keywords

civil rights
distributive justice
equality
global health
global public health
public policy
international health
social justice
social policy
social responsibility

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