Research Guides: Camden Pre-College Institute 2020: Rowan research databases

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Biography Reference Source
Comprehensive collection of full-text biographies.
Britannica Academic
Comprehensive college-level encyclopedia.
CQ Press Library
Collection of reference works on American government, current affairs, politics and public policy.
Contains resources on American government, current affairs, history, politics, public policy, and data analysis for the social sciences. Individual resources available in the Library include the following: CQ Almanac; CQ Researcher Plus Archives; CQ Weekly; Political Handbook of the World; Politics in America; and the Supreme Court Yearbook.
Credo Reference
Comprehensive reference collection (dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies etc.) for all academic disciplines.
Credo Reference provides a complete reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotation books, bilingual dictionaries, measurement conversions, and more.
Films on Demand
Documentaries, award-winning educational films, independent films, and helpful instructional videos.
NewsBank Access World News
Articles from a large collection of newspapers worldwide.
NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from U.S. and international sources, including The Washington Post, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Trenton Times, USA Today, London Times, The Economist China Daily (Beijing).
SAGE Research Methods
Research tool focusing on methodology.
Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.

In depth and scholarly / peer reviewed articles

Academic Search Complete
Full-text journal, magazine, and news articles in all academic disciplines.
Criminal Justice Database (1981 - current)
Journal, magazine and news articles in criminal justice.
Comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Access to thousands of open access (OA) journals and journal articles that are free to read.
Ethnic NewsWatch
News, magazine, and journal articles from the ethnic, minority and native press.
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Coverage begins in 1990.
Film & Television Literature Index
Journal, magazine and news articles for the study of film and television.
Film & Television Literature Index is the definitive index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for hundreds of publications. Click on the GetIt! button when searching for the full text of a given citation. (Ebsco)
GenderWatch
News, magazine and journal articles on the impact of gender.
Full text database of periodical articles and other publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Google Scholar
Search engine for scholarly literature from Google.
To set Rowan University as your default institution when using Google Scholar directly from the internet, go to https://scholar.google.com/scholar_setprefs?instq=Rowan%20University

URL: https://scholar.google.com/?inst=12320807419666651891
JSTOR
Archive of full-text scholarly journal articles and ebooks in a broad range of academic disciplines.

Camden Pre-College Institute 2020: Rowan research databases

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