Scholarly sources (peer-reviewed journal articles, books, conference proceedings, etc.) serve as good evidence for proposals and arguments in higher education. Use these sources to find analysis and expert information about the mental health of college students, effective approaches to recognizing and intervening in mental health crises, impacts on faculty, staff and peers, and more.
Library search box - searches across many, but not all, library resources. Great for finding information from a variety of disciplines in one search.
Tips:
Google Scholar - uses Google to search across scholarly sources. Use it through this guide or the library website in order to be passed through to library subscriptions instead of hitting a paywall.
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Library databases (maybe you used Gale or Ebsco databases in hgh school?) let you search for information in a specific discipline. These are useful for diving deeper and doing more precise searching than you can often do in tools that search a broader swath of information.
Useful datatabases for this topic include:
Has over 1.8 million individual records, some dating back to 1887, and includes abstracts from Psychological Abstracts back to 1927, Psychological Bulletin from 1921-1926, and all APA journals and the American Journal of Psychology back to their first issues. Corresponds in part to the print index Psychological Abstracts.
From the NCSU Libraries
Many library databases will let you limit to scholarly/peer-reviewed articles. This is a great first step but you still need to check if its peer-reviewed yourself. Try one of these ways:
1. Google the journal title and read about the journal's process for accepting and publishing work. It should mention peer review, not just review by an editor.
2. Look up the journal title in a library database called UlrichsWeb. If it is peer-reviewed (refereed), there will be a little referee shirt there -
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Mental health statistics can help you define the scope of the problem as well as learn about the use of different types of interventions. In addition to some larger data sets below, you will also find statistics on organizational web pages and in journal and newspaper articles. Just be sure to evaluate the source for credibility and make sure you know where they are getting their statistics.
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