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_First Year Writing - Regional Campuses — Class Assignments: Hartford

This guide focuses on research resources for English classes at the Regionals with information for specific assignments.
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FINDING BOOKS
https://lib.uconn.edu/

The UConn Library's General Search box enables you to access our books, electronic materials such as ejournals and ebooks, and Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) materials with one search. Filters and facets narrow your results to suit your needs. 

General Search Advanced Search
Use the Advanced Search to limit your search to just books or just articles. You can also use the Advanced Search to search by author, title, or subject.


Suggested Print Books / E-Books / Video
(enter NetID and password for off-campus access)

Learn how to request a book for pickup 

 

FINDING JOURAL ARTICLES

Suggested Journals and Databases 
(enter NetID and password for off-campus access)

        Journals

        Databases

  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
    Includes articles from scholarly journals and popular magazines covering a wide variety of disciplines with the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
    Articles in communication, mass media, linguistics, and film studies.
  • Google Scholar
    Scholarly articles, books, theses on a variety of topics through Google interface.
  • JSTOR
    Scholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology.
  • Issues & Controversies 
    Summarizes current issues and controversies in political, economic, social and scientific topics.
  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
    Indexes scholarly articles in linguistics including speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics.
  • LGBT Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
    Covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues including civil liberties, culture, employment, family, history, psychology, and religion.
  • MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
    Scholarly articles, ebooks, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies in literature and linguistics.
  • Newspapers through ProQuest
    Cross search of 5 databases: the Hartford Courant (1992-present); Los Angeles Times (1985-present); New York Times (1997-present); Wall Street Journal (1982-present); and the Washington Post (1987-present)
  • PsycInfo/APA PsycInfo (EBSCO)
    Scholarly articles in psychology, plus medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, criminology, social science, business, & organizational behavior.
  • Project Muse
    Full text access to journals and ebooks in classics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, religion, and visual and performing arts.
  • SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
    Scholarly journal articles about sociology and other social and behavioral sciences. Includes culture & social structure; economic development; evaluation research; family & social welfare; management and complex organizations; policy planning.
  • Women's Studies International (EBSCO)
    Includes abstracts for articles, newsletters, books, proceedings, and dissertations covering current topics in feminist research.

Primary and Secondary Sources

Identifying Scholarly Sources
 

FINDING BOOKS
https://lib.uconn.edu/

The UConn Library's General Search box enables you to access our books, electronic materials such as ejournals and ebooks, and Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) materials with one search. Filters and facets narrow your results to suit your needs. 

General Search Advanced Search
Use the Advanced Search to limit your search to just books or just articles. You can also use the Advanced Search to search by author, title, or subject.
 

Related Subject Terms

Suggested E-Books for Background Information
(enter NetID and password for off-campus access)

 

FINDING JOURAL ARTICLES

Suggested Journals and Databases 
(enter NetID and password for off-campus access)

        Journals

        Databases

  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
    Includes articles from scholarly journals and popular magazines covering a wide variety of disciplines with the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
    Articles in communication, mass media, linguistics, and film studies.
  • Google Scholar
    Scholarly articles, books, theses on a variety of topics through Google interface.
  • JSTOR
    Scholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology.
  • LGBT Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
    Covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues including civil liberties, culture, employment, family, history, psychology, and religion.
  • MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
    Scholarly articles, ebooks, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies in literature and linguistics.
  • Newspapers through ProQuest
    Cross search of 5 databases: the Hartford Courant (1992-present); Los Angeles Times (1985-present); New York Times (1997-present); Wall Street Journal (1982-present); and the Washington Post (1987-present)
  • PsycInfo/APA PsycInfo (EBSCO)
    Scholarly articles in psychology, plus medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, criminology, social science, business, & organizational behavior.
  • Project Muse
    Full text access to journals and ebooks in classics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, religion, and visual and performing arts.
  • SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
    Scholarly journal articles about sociology and other social and behavioral sciences. Includes culture & social structure; economic development; evaluation research; family & social welfare; management and complex organizations; policy planning.
  • SPORTDiscus (EBSCO)
    Scholarly journal articles about sport, fitness, and physical education topics including both practical and research literature.
  • Women's Studies International (EBSCO)
    Includes abstracts for articles, newsletters, books, proceedings, and dissertations covering current topics in feminist research.