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General Information

• Reference Librarians are here to help! Visit us, call us, email us, IM us or chat with us!
• Library hours
• Finding It! A Research Skills Tutorial: A self-paced tutorial in eight chapters. Covers the basics of research as well as how to avoid plagiarism, paraphrase correctly and cite your sources.

Library Catalog

• Search for books in The University Libraries.
• Use the search connector "and" to do a keyword search for more than one term.

Databases for Biographical Information

Biography Resource Center

• Contains biographical information on a variety of famous people, living and dead

American National Biography

• Contains biographical information on well-known dead Americans
• Only 2 people at a time can access this database.

Primary Sources: Links to a number of online resources for examining primary documents

State Constitutions Database

NBER/Maryland State Constitutions Project

• Searchable database of state constitutions with revisions.

Article Databases

Opposing Viewpoints

• Provides background information on controversial issues as well as arguments presented by supporters and opponents of each issue.
• Includes fulltext articles, reference sources, statistics, primary documents, images, web links, and more.

CQ Researcher

• Analysis of a wide variety of current political and social issues

Academic Search Premier

• Use to find articles from magazines and journals
• Offers full text for over 1,200 academic journals on all subjects.

LexisNexis Academic

• Full text of statutes and case law, from the early 1980's for most courts.
• Supreme Court cases are available since 1789 rulings.
• Also provides the full text of many law review journals.
• Watch this video tutorial for how to find a court case!

Citing Your Sources

MLA Style

• UNCG's quick guide to citing books, articles and websites

Class Evaluation

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