The Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library

Worldcat Library Catalog Journal Titles

FOUN 098 45: Nurturing Justice in South Africa: Getting Started

Use these databases to explore what has been published on your topic. Learning more about your topic will help you hone in on the issues you wish to address in your research paper. Be sure to think critically about the sources you use to cite in your paper.

Global Issues (Gale in Context)
An excellent source for beginning to develop a topic. You can browse by regions and countries to focus on South Africa or you can use the advanced search option. Contains a variety of sources such as newspapers, journals and magazine articles, and statistical and reference sources.
WorldCat Library Catalog
Search for books, articles, and more that are held by Bucknell and beyond.
JSTOR
An archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.
Research Library
Citations of newspaper and periodical articles covering a broad range of subjects, including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Here are some tutorials and guides that will help you to evaluate the resources that you find.

Critically Analyzing Information Sources
Guidelines for evaluating sources by the Olin and Uris Libraries at Cornell University
OWL Guide to Evaluating Sources
Guidelines for evaluating sources from the Purdue Online Writing Lab

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