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Primary vs. Secondary Sources

Primary sources are original sources created by a participant or observer of a historical event. Primary sources may include: letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, photographs, audio recordings, government documents, and videos. In the arts, primary sources also include original garments, sketches, wigs, etc.

Secondary sources are interpretations or analyses of an event, usually written by scholars after the event occurred.

Legal Databases

Westlaw Campus Research
Comprehensive database of legal materials, including cases, statutes, and regulations of the U.S. government and the various state governments; includes the legal encyclopedia American Jurisprudence 2nd and American Law Reports; case law from 1789 to present; current statutes and regulations.
HeinOnline
An image-based government document and legal research database containing comprehensive coverage from inception of U.S. statutory materials, Congressional Documents and more than 2,500 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase. Includes the American Indian Law Collection.
NexisUni

Searches information in federal and state case law, statutes, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information. Also includes full text newspapers, broadcast transcripts including non-English language, financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
Legal Collection
Contains full-text for hundreds of scholarly law journals covering information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. Hosted by EBSCO.
Legal Information Source
Designed to assist the general public in legal matters of all kinds. It includes full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms. Hosted by EBSCO.

Current Events & Newpapers

Opposing Viewpoints
Reprinted essays from scholarly and popular newspapers, magazines, blogs, speeches and other stories. Essays present a particular viewpoint or argument on a topic of current interest.
This resource is also available through the Metropolitan Library.
News and Newspapers
A list of available historical newspapers available through ProQuest: Canadian Newsstream, International Newsstream, U.S. Newsstream, GenderWatch, Global Breaking Newswires, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, The Scotsman, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles, and more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts. Hosted by EBSCO.
NexisUni

Searches information in federal and state case law, statutes, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information. Also includes full text newspapers, broadcast transcripts including non-English language, financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.

Security Databases

Security Studies
The Security Studies collection gathers academic and policy research on international and national security problems and foreign policy issues from a global perspective.
Digital National Security Archive
Declassified U.S. government documents providing vital primary source material to advance research in twentieth century history, politics, and international relations.

Psychology Databases

PsycArticles
Journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
PsycInfo
Psychology, mental health, addictions and treatment, therapies, experiments, case studies, pharmacology, physiology, psychiatric nursing, linguistics, social work.
ProQuest Central: Psychology
Abstracts and indexing for 640+ psychology journals, with 540+ titles in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, and psychometrics.

Sociology Databases

SocIndex with Full Text
Scholarly articles, books, and other sources in sociology and related fields. Hosted by EBSCO.
Sociological Collection
Offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. Hosted by EBSCO.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier
Multidisciplinary, general database covering most academic topics. Hosted by EBSCO.
ProQuest Central Premium
Multidisciplinary search across many databases including business, health and medicine, social sciences, education, science and technology, and arts and humanities.
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary resource providing articles from peer-reviewed journals. UCO's Collections include Arts & Sciences I-XV, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability. Archival access only.
Project Muse
Multidisciplinary database with special emphasis on social science and the liberal arts.
ScienceDirect
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles, with a strong emphasis on the sciences and social sciences.
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