Picking Your Topic is Research
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Getting Started
Find more advice about getting started on you research in our Research Process library guide.
Finding Background Information
Reference sources, such as encyclopedias and dictionaries, can provide background information on a topic when you are beginning your research. Here are some reference sources that may be useful for your course.
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AccessScienceFull access to more than 7100 articles, 115,000 definitions, 2,000 biographies, and research advances in science and technology. Updated daily.
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Credo ReferenceFeatures content from reference book formats such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, plus subject-specific titles in subjects ranging from agriculture to philosophy to technology.
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GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library)A collection of reference ebooks in the following subject areas: Biography, Business, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science, World Literature and Its Times.
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Sage KnowledgeIncludes an expansive range of Sage eBook and eReference content for students, researchers, and faculty. This collection includes scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, encyclopedias, textbooks and more.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics by Publication Date: 2014 -
The Oxford Companion to Cosmology by Publication Date: 2008 -
Popular Science Magazines
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Discover (1987 - present)Current issues at Periodicals, Martin Library of the Sciences, 1st floor
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Science News
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Scientific American (1845 - present)
