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English Composition Information Literacy Toolkit: #3 Searching for Sources
Content and activities for information literacy competencies.
Access and search for sources through the GRCC Library OneSearch
Practice efficient and advanced search techniques in the GRCC Library OneSearch
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Before you begin the worksheet, you must first download and then save the document to your computer. After you save it initially, you can then open it, fill it out, and save it again under a unique file name.
A broad range of topics is covered in this general database, which includes full-text articles from thousands of periodicals as well as some reference books.
This is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.
Mostly full-text. Comprehensive sociology research database covering the broad spectrum of sociological study, including Communication studies. The database utilizes subject headings from a built-in sociological thesaurus for better search results.
This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.
The journals cover all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including medical sciences, immunology, pharmacy and pharmacology, nursing, physical fitness and hygiene, surgery, and others. Titles include:
The New England Journal of Medicine
The Lancet
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Journal of Clinical Investigation
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
The American Journal of Psychiatry
Diabetes
Canadian Medical Association. Journal; CMAJ
Rheumatology
American Journal of Public Health