Research Guides: CHSS Case Study Competition : Scholarly Resources

Databases and Suggested Search Terms

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Journal, magazine and news articles in all academic disciplines.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 6,600 journals.
Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
Provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles in a variety of social science journals.
A definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of scientific journals. It covers core disciplines across the social sciences including sociology, social work, anthropology, politics and other areas, featuring journals from over 50 countries, facilitating multidisciplinary research and providing researchers with a variety of perspectives. The database includes over 1000 titles, with the majority available in full text.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Journal and news articles for the study of communications and mass media.
A research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles; Full text for over 450 journals. (Ebsco)
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journal articles in the field of criminal justice.
Contains more than 200,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Subject areas covered include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.

Depending on the guiding article you chose, you want to decide on keywords to search within the databases, an example could be:

(social media OR facebook OR twitter) AND elect* AND "fake news"

another example:

email AND hack* AND government