For this assignment, you might need several types of sources:
Source Type | Start Here |
Scholarly Articles |
Library Databases like Academic Search Complete, see recommendations below |
Reports from think tanks and government agencies |
Google or on a specific site (like the one for the Brooking Institution). Use recommendations and Google Search Tips below. Make sure to evaluate potential sources. |
Journalism/News | UT's New York Times access, Google News, or the UT Libraries NexisUni database. Make sure to evaluate unfamiliar publications. |
Searching databases is different than searching Google. Distil what you're looking for into a few key terms or phrases, rather than whole sentences.
Key Concepts |
immigrant students | academic achievement | policy debates |
Related Terms |
undocumented students (more specific) immigrants
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learning academic performance achievement (more general) success academic success |
public debate policy ideas policy proposals attitudes (more general/related) negative attitudes positive attitudes |
Background and overviews
Scholarly Articles (mostly)
Unlimited users.
Updated daily. A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
Unlimited users.
In addition to full-text journals, SocINDEX with Full Text contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. Includes indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources.
Unlimited users.
Updated monthly. Bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, government documents, and microfiche. More than 1,600 journals and over 8,000 monographs are indexed each year. Includes documents published worldwide in any of six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The subject headings and abstracts are in English.
Unlimited users.
Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes full text and citations.
Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
News/Journalism
Unlimited users.
Updated continually. Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an interface that offers discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Google Search Tips:
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This video, from RMIT University, explains what a database is...
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