Finding Sources - NATR 300 - Professor Papouchis (Fall 2024) - ARC Research Guides at American River College

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For the team project, at least five of your sources must be from peer-reviewed journals. When using OneSearch or Academic Search Complete, you can limit your results to those from peer-reviewed journals.

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Definitely check to see if your individual project topic is covered here. Could also be useful for the team project.
OneSearch This link opens in a new window
Could be useful for both individual and team topics. This database can sometimes be a pain. Please let me know if it gets frustrating so I can help :)
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
If OneSearch is frustrating, this is a good alternative for finding journal articles.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Check to see if your team project topic is covered here. Simple searches of one or two keywords will work best.

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Government Reports

At least five of your sources for the team project should be scholarly journal articles or government reports. Try Google's Advanced Search to find government reports. Limit the site or domain to .gov and limit the file type to .pdf. Not everything that comes up will be a report, but there should be some reports in the results.

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NATR 300 - Professor Papouchis (Fall 2024): Finding Sources

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