Teaching & Learning Librarian
Conducting a Literature Review
Conducting a literature Review for the first time can be confusing. These tutorials will provide you with tips and examples.
Source: Literature Review, video tutorial, by Emily Bongiovanni and Brianna Buljung
Source: Conducting a Literature Review, LibWizard tutorial, by Brianna Buljung
General and Religion Resources
Get started with your research for your paper in these broad, multi-disciplinary resources.
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Library Catalog - Colorado School of Mines This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database offering information in nearly every area of academic study, including arts, biology, chemistry, computer sciences, ethnic studies, engineering, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, social sciences, and more. -
JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collections I-III This link opens in a new window
Full-text digital archive of over 700 scholarly journals, especially strong in Social Sciences, Humanities, Economics, and Mathematics. -
Religion and Philosophy (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines of interest to both researchers and general users. The database offers balanced content that covers topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.
Presidential and Foreign Policy Sources
These databases and links are focused on presidential and US foreign policy history
DATABASES
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HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
An ever-expanding database that specializes in offering original PDF copies of full-runs of legal collections. It includes: most major legal periodicals, federal and state statutes, court decisions, attorney general reports and opinions, federal legislative history materials, treaties, foreign & international law material, and numerous specialized legal collections. The text of collections are fully searchable and there are tools to browse or find items by citation. -
ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Abstracting and indexing of all government publications with full text for Congressional Hearings 1824 to present. Plus bill tracking and legislative histories, member profiles, research, and CIS index. -
Military and Intelligence (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more. -
U.S. History (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Provides contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. History. This resource merges reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites. -
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Offers more than 2 million full-text dissertations in science, technology, business, humanities, social sciences, and more. Full-text available. -
World History (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
World History in Context provides information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. The publisher merged reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.
LINKS TO PRIMARY SOURCES
Finding Good Web Resources
Use these good search habits to find high quality, authoritative sources on the internet:
1) Limit your Google Search by domain -- add site:. before a domain, such as .gov or .edu.
2) Use Google Scholar, instead of the regular Google search box to find for scholarly articles
3) Let the Google Scholar citation help you find related articles, create a citation or get the full text from the library
