Research
This guide provides an overview of various library resources and services. The resources include media, books, and databases. Databases will be searched to locate the journal literature you need for your assignment. The literature may be Qualitative (open-ended surveys and questionnaires, observation, interview, focus groups) or Quantitative (closed-ended/fixed surveys, questionnaires).
Getting Started | Background Information | Reference Material
Reference Material in the form of subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks typically provide background essays, definitions, broad overviews of various topics, or other pertinent facts. Online reference material can be searched via collections like those below.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowOver 600 reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries (English and foreign language), thesauri, books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific reference books.
- SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias, handbooks, ebooks, and videos published by Sage and CQ Press. 2000 to present
