Using the essays in Opposing Viewpoints or the encyclopedia and reference articles in Gale won't help you investigate your topic thoroughly. Those articles are superficial, broad overviews. The research articles in these databases will allow you uncover rich analysis as well as the latest and most important theories and findings on your topic.
NOTE: If you are trying your search out in these databases and getting irrelevant results - you need to visit your keyword strategy.
If you're drawing a blank in these databases, search more broadly in our all-in-one search - which is overwhelming. You can use the left menu to narrow results by type, date and discipline.
Sometimes you see a link to the pdf or html of a full article - yay!
Sometimes you don't...instead, you see this:
If you click that, the databases will all talk to each other, find where the article lives, and take you right there.
Oof! It's only available in print? You can go get it on the shelves, or click:
and the library will scan and email you the article - even if we don't own it!
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