The following guides have been produced by other librarians at USC that can also help you develop and organize a quality research paper.
Help with Research
- Political Science -- a research guide that lists and describes databases and scholarly web sites that support the study of political science and its related sub-disciplines.
- Primary Sources -- selective guide to finding databases and directories of archival primary source materials at USC or freely available online.
- Public Diplomacy -- a research guide for locating newspaper and journal articles, research reports, and links to online resources that support research about diplomacy.
- Spatial Sciences and GIS -- a resource guide that provides access to resources supporting academic scholarship in the spatial sciences and data visualization.
- Statistics and Data -- guide to numeric sources in the social sciences available through the USC Libraries and on the Internet.
Help with Writing
- Citation Guide -- a brief guide to citation rules covering a variety of commonly used styles.
- RefWorks -- a guide to using RefWorks in the USC Libraries environment, a Web-based citation manager similar to EndNote.