Library Guides: ENGL414: Advanced Multi-Genre Writing: Contextual Research

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Take some time to consider what kinds of information will answer the questions you have about your public awareness campaign.

What historical context are you required to dig into? Who might have written about your awareness campaign? How detailed does that context need to be?
What kinds of media/artifacts did your awareness campaign produce? Who might have saved or archived them?

The types of information you need (or think you need) will affect where and how you search.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines, and is especially strong in the humanities and social sciences. JSTOR's coverage often goes back to the first volume and issue of many journals, but it may not have the most recent issues.
Gale OneFile: U.S. History This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Updated daily, this library resource offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database - designed to cover many of the academic disciplines offered at colleges and universities. Offers over 4,700 full text journals.

*Content Made Available Though ND State Library*

US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Full-text of over 1300 newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world. The database includes backfile for most newspapers, providing access to articles, columns, editorials, obituaries and features published in each paper.

Search several words as a phrase

Combine multiple search terms, or exclude certain words from your results

AND - search two topics/keywords together

OR - add synonyms or related terms

NOT - exclude words from your search results

Search all variations of a root word

Use filters with in a database or in the catalog to narrow your results after you've entered search terms. Filter by date, language, subject, etc.