Selected Resources for Public Reasoninging and Communication
Other Pages: Evaluating Web Sites | Brief Guide to Citations
Locating Books in Library Catalogs
| At Wittenberg: | EZRA |
|---|---|
| At other Ohio Libraries | OhioLINK Catalog |
| In North America For ILL | WorldCat |
Reference Works
- Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
- Ref. BJ 63 .E44 1998
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Ref. KF 154 .W47 2005
- Also look for subject specific dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Various call numbers. Great sources for overviews and definitions
- Credo Reference
- Online Reference Books -- great place to look for good definitions of terms
- Wikipedia
- Of variable reliability, but great for very current information. Always use in conjunction with other sources to verify information.
News and current events in indexes, databases and web sites
| Academic Search Complete
(1986-Present) |
Indexes about 2000 periodicals -- both scholarly journals and popular magazines; covers 1986-Present, with some fulltext coverage starting in the early 1990s. |
|---|---|
| SocINDEX | Index to articles on Sociology |
| Sociological Collection | Index to articles on Sociology |
| Lexis-Nexis Academic | 20 years of full text general, governmental & industrial news. |
| ProQuest Congressional Publications | Information and texts of current and past Congressional bills and news sources. |
Locating Journals:
- At Wittenberg: See our online list of Journals the Library Has
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Compiled by Ken Irwin.