Writing Center Library Database Resources: Getting Started
This guide is intended to serve as a quick reference guide for USC Writing Center Consultants on databases that may be useful for finding information on each of the ten WRIT 150 thematics.
A great place to get started building background information for your research. Like Wikipedia, but with entries written by credible experts in the field.
Contains encyclopedias and reference books in a variety of subjects. Often tackles slightly more detailed issues than CREDO reference, so this resource can be a good place to search after Credo.
Oxford Bibliographies gives extensive annotated bibliographies on particular topics. Once you learn a bit about your topic, it can be a helpful source for finding relevant research literature on your topic.
Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
Full-text coverage, 1980-present, of the US newspaper of record.
Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.
The Wall Street Journal offers full page and article images with searchable full text , please see the ABI/Inform or ProQuest databases for additional editions.