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- Credo Reference - All Subjects Search This link opens in a new windowContains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles.
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Do I Really Need to Use Books?
Books can provide different information about your topic.
Magazines and Newspapers include quick details about a person or an event.
Books provide more complete information and also often include additional research on a topic or a special perspective.
As you research your topic you may want to use books. Sometimes only a chapter or a small section of a book is needed. If your research requires in depth knowledge you may want to read one or more books completely.
Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille. Interrupted Reading. 1870. Art Institute Chicago, https://www.artic.edu/artworks/81512/interrupted-reading.
Finding Books and Articles - Search OWL
Search OWL (Oakton's Whole Library)
Use the OWL link!
You can search for books, ebooks, articles, and more.
Focus Your Search on Articles with a Database
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new windowDatabase of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills. It contains reference book titles, pro and con viewpoint articles, and a variety of periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs.
- Academic Search Complete EBSCO This link opens in a new windowProvides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals - of which more than 7,300 are peer-reviewed journals.
Try a specialty database for very specialized information.
- ERIC Education Resources EBSCO This link opens in a new windowERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations & theses, and books.