To find articles you need to go to the Online Databases page. For appropriate databases on your topic look under Databases by Subject. Click on the subject you are interested in and you will see a list of databases. You may also use the Help by Subject link on the libraries homepage. These pages point to specific databases in their subject area.
For your FWS projects you may look at the Multidisciplinary Databases or Databases by Subject. Some of the useful databases include Academic OneFile, CQ Researcher, LexisNexis Academic, FACTS.com, New York Times 1851-2004 - ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
Go to the Academic OneFile.
Select Subject Guide Search and search for blogs.
Notice that you can limit your searches to:
- Articles with full text
- Peer reviewed publications—scholarly, professional, or peer-reviewed publications
- By date
- By specific journal(s)
- By publication subject
Your search on blogs will retrieve an overwhelming amount of records, Click on Subdivisions to see how you can refine your searches.
Select the Analysis subdivision and look at a few of the articles. You may print and/or email the documents. If the article is not full-text online and only a citation (abbreviated location information) is available, then click on the Find It button. This will allow you to search the BC Libraries holdings, or link you to other fulltext options if they are available. Alternately, you may enter Quest and search the Journals Titles catalog. This will tell you if any of the BC libraries collect that title.
To find out how to cite the articles you found by using the MLA or APA style format, click on Citation Tools in the Tools box on the right of the document page.
If there is no relevant subject subdivision or you have a specific topic, narrow your search by using the Advanced Search option.
For example, you may narrow a search to the role of blogs in elections and politics, and limit the results to peer reviewed publications. Limiting results to peer reviewed journals screens for articles in academic journals. Using the asterisk (*) as a truncation will allow you to search word variations and plurals. Blog* will retrieve records with blog or blogs and politic* will retrieve records including the terms politics, political, or politicians.
The following databases are good places to begin researching topics:
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Academic OneFile -- Use this database to find information on Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications, and General Sciences.
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CQ Researcher -- CQ Researcher is a good place to begin to find research on hot social issues. It is possible to browse research topics, and each issue contains charts, graphs, an overview of the issue and opposing viewpoints.
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LexisNexis Academic -- LexisNexis is a powerful research database that allows you to search and read the contents of newspapers and magazines published since the 1980's.
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FACTS.com -- FACTS.com delivers the full text of the print edition of Facts On File World News Digest, from January 1970 through the end of the most recent weekly issue -- along with overview materials, primary source documents, photographs, maps, biographies, and country profiles, and newswire updates from Reuters. This database also includes articles drawn from Facts On File News Services' Issues and Controversies On File and Today's Science On File, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, and The World Almanac and Book of Facts. Coverage of pre-1970 is available from 1940+.