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Research Commons
Research
Process
Choosing a Topic
Building Context
Refining a Topic
Gathering Resources
Analyzing Resources
Citing Sources
Creating a Bibliography
Resources Consulted
Building Context
The following materials can help you locate articles that give you a broad idea about your topic. Some of these resources are physically in the Reference Section, some are in the
online databases
and others are in both (eg. Encyclopedia Britannica).
General encyclopedias
Biographical sources
Specialized/subject specific encyclopedias
Specialized/subject specific dictionaries
Almanacs
Handbooks
Periodical articles from full-text databases
http://mail.danahall.org/~library/online_databases.html
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and librarians help?
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