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Key Resources:

Scholarly and Popular Resources (Click for Video Tutorial)

* Databases (to find journal articles) (Click for Video Tutorial)

www.lib.odu.edu => Databases => Choose from the subject list or choose from the alphabetical list

For fulltext articles, choose from:

• ABI/Inform -- Business and Management resources: use the Advanced Search.
• Contemporary Women's Issues -- Covering sociology, education, human rights associated with women's issues.
• CQ Researcher --Single themed reports covering political and social issues.
• Women's Studies International -- Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.
  
• Education Full Text -- Use the Advanced Search to find articles about workplace and education issues.
• Factiva -- Generally, just use the "free text" search. You can also use Intelligent Indexing to limit your search by "Industry" (ex. the health care industry) and "Region" (ex. United States and/or Europe).
• Business Source Complete -- Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
• Academic Search Complete – Find fulltext journal articles on a wide variety of subject.  Limit search to:  refereed publications.
• JSTOR -- Hundreds of fulltext journals across a wide variety of disciplines
• Lexis-Nexis Academic -- Newspapers, business and legal research. Use the Guided Search.
• Project Muse --Fulltext of articles in the humanities and social sciences.
• ScienceDirect -- Useful for finding the full text of scholarly research papers, including articles from the social sciences and business. Use the Search form.

Other good databases without fulltext content include:

• Communication and Mass Media Complete -- Articles covering the professional communications literature.
• Econlit --Journals, books and working papers on economics.
• PsycInfo -- Useful for finding articles on workplace psychology issues.
• Sociological Abstracts -- Useful for finding articles on work, society, and family issues.

* Online library catalog (to find books or journals) (Click for video tutorial)

www.lib.odu.edu => Library Catalog

- Search for books by keyword
- Search for journals (but not articles!) in "Journals, Magazines Newspapers" (Video Tutorial)

* Interlibrary Loan (to have books or articles sent to you) (Click for Video Tutorial)

www.lib.odu.edu => Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery => Select the type of item you wish to request and fill in as much of the information as you know.

Citing your sources in APA

- UNC Chapel Hill APA Style Guide
- University of Wisconsin Madison APA Style Guide
- Diana Hacker - Research and Documentation Online