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We also have a guide to citing your sources.
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Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities:
Volume 1: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power
Volume 2: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power in Early Academic Careers
Ch 7: A Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Approach to Graduate Student Access and Outcomes
Maria Dykema, Kathy Wood, Matt Newlin
The databases listed here are excellent places to get started for finding books and scholarly articles. You can find more specialized, subject-specific databases on our list of research guides.
Multidisciplinary database that includes scholarly journals in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, business, literature, and other subjects.
Academic Search Premier contains indexing, abstracts and full-text articles for scholarly publications, most of them peer-reviewed. The subjects covered include topics in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study.
This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
Social Sciences Full Text provides access to hundreds of English language journals in the social sciences. About two-thirds of the journals are peer-reviewed.
A multidisciplinary science database designed for students and non-specialists. Subjects includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health, medicine, oceanography, physics, and zoology. Covers leading journals and magazines, biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, and special issues of journals. Also covers the New York Times Science Section and cites book reviews.