This guide will help you get started with your research for this class. If you have any questions or need help finding resources, please feel free to reach out to Lara Nicosia...she is happy to help!
This database includes scholarly essays, current periodicals, historical news coverage, and more. With access to the The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, and Black Literature Index this is a great database for Black studies research.
This database is a great multidisciplinary database with full-text articles from social science-based disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, and gender studies. It also includes research from history, which some consider a humanistic social science.
Abstracts included from 1994-current; full text for many articles from 1994-current.
This database focuses on sociology, education, and other social science literature - it provides a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals and books, many of which employ clear methodologies and theories to support their arguments.
This database includes full-text journal articles focused on education and related fields, including research on education administration, teaching methods, curriculum, literacy, and government funding
Includes administration, teaching methods, curriculum, literacy and government funding.
This multidisciplinary database is a great starting point for most topics. It provides full-text access to scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, as well as trade journals, magazines, news stories, and more.
Identifies articles on all topics, many with links to full text. Includes articles in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, news, trade journals and more
This database includes key national and regional news sources from throughout the U.S. including major news publications such as The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune. It's a great place to find discussions and arguments around current issues.
This database includes newspapers, magazines, and journals from alternative and independent presses such as Dissent and Solidarity's Against the Current.
Interested in what's happening locally? You can search the entire run of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (the newspaper of record for Rochester, NY) from 1884-present.
Consisting of key 20th century Black Newspapers from around the United States, this database provides insight into the "evolution of black identity as depicted in the press, and the unique viewpoints of a major segment of our population."
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) Chicago Defender (1909-1975) New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).
This database includes online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference books and encyclopedias on a variety of subjects. It is a great starting point for most research topics.
"Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. [The Center] conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research."
Datasets and codebooks in political science, health and welfare, education and economics.
Datasets, with codebooks, on political attitudes, health and welfare, education and economic behavior. Almost all codebooks are online. If a codebook is only available in hard copy, you may contact us for more info.