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Defining Secondary Sources
Secondary source, noun
Any published or unpublished work that is one step removed from the original source, usually describing, summarizing, analyzing, evaluating, derived from, or based on primary source materials...—definition from the Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
Secondary Sources: Journal Articles
Looking for journal articles topics related to the U.S. welfare state? Try these resources:
- Library CatalogLooking for only articles? Limit by "Articles Only" or choose "Item Type" --> "Articles."
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowExcellent starting point. Multidisciplinary article database offers access to more than 16,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, including over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals.
- Black Studies Center: Journal SearchThis searches the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) and The Marshall Index. IIBP includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, with full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA digital archive of over 1,100 important scholarly journals. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years, based on JSTOR's agreement with the journal's publisher.
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowComprehensive coverage of sociology and its sub-disciplines, with very good coverage of related areas of study, especially politics. In addition to full-text journals, it contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new windowNearly 600,000 entries from over 2,000 periodicals and other sources, dating back to the 1970's, on the "core disciplines in Women's Studies." Materials include: journal, magazine, and newspaper articles; reports, theses and dissertations; book chapters; and more.
An easy way to find only ebooks in the library catalog
To find only ebooks:
1. Search the library catalog (https://library.wlu.edu) on the library's main webpage with “books only” selected.
2. On the left of the results screen, under “Refine my results,” click “Available online” & “Apply filters.”
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