LibGuides: * Education Abroad Research Guide: Research While Abroad

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ProQuest Research, Newspapers & Business This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles in journals, magazines and newspapers, many full text. Includes ABI/Inform, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, and Alt-PressWatch.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
For off-campus access to full text: Click Scholar Preferences and add Rochester as your Library Link. Be sure to Save Preferences.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text articles in many disciplines. To access JSTOR you may need to login with VPN .
Subject areas include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, statistics. The University of Rochester Libraries currently subscribes to the following multidisciplinary JSTOR Collections: Arts and Sciences I through XV. JSTOR also packages their content in disciplinary collections; however, the only ones of these that we have licensed are the Biological Sciences segment and the first of the Business collections. For alumni access, see also Alumni Library Gateway.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Journals from Elsevier Science and other publishers. Browse or search tables of contents, abstracts and full text of articles in all disciplines.
Includes the sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences, and clinical medicine. Full text from 1995 on, except as indicated.
Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
Journals from Sage Publications. Browse or search tables of contents, abstracts and full text articles in all disciplines.
Includes the Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Full text available as indicated. For alumni access, see also Alumni Library Gateway.

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Managing Resources

To learn about easy ways to keep track of your research sources, try a citation manager! You can easily gather, organize and include citations while you write your paper!

Citation Management - Refworks, Endnote, Zotero, Mendeley

Research Strategies

Picking a research topic IS research (NC State)

What makes a good research question (University of Cincinnati)

Reading a Scholarly Article

Writing Strategies

Write in specific disciplines

Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazines

Primary vs. Secondary Sources

Writing Annotated Bibliographies

UR Faculty on Writing - History, Literature, Sciences