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Research Instruction: Course Guides: CNW 242-10

 

World Poverty and Inequality

I. Books
II. Scholarly and General Interest Articles

  • Academic Search Premier
    • indexes 2,000+ general and academic journals
    • covers all subjects
    • coverage from 1985+
    • mostly full-text

  • JSTOR
    • indexes 440+ of the most prestigious scholarly journals
    • provides all years of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
    • full-text

  • PAIS International
    • Public Affairs Information Service, the premier global public policy resource database
    • indexes 3,600+ sources: periodicals, books, hearings, reports, government documents, internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries
    • coverage from 1972+

  • WilsonWeb
    • 3,500+ general and academic journals
    • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega and Humanities & Social Sci Retro
    • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
    • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
    • 1,750 journals are full-text

  • Check journal titles against the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals

  • Interlibrary Loan
    • free, online form, budget 1-2 weeks


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III. Newspapers

  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
    • 5,900+ national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
    • full-text

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IV. Web Sites

  • Yahoo!'s Directory > Society and culture > Issues and causes > Poverty
  • Google Directory > Society > Issues > Poverty

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V. How to Cite
 

 

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