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CQ Researcher (1991 -)44 reports per year. Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week, featuring comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue.
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Academic Search Complete (1975-present) This link opens in a new windowCovers topics in most areas of academic study. Full-text provided for over 10,000 publications, with over 7,850 peer-reviewed. Abstracts and indexing available for over 13,780 journals in the collection.
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IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowSearch and access the full-text of IEEE and IET journals, IEEE and IET conference proceedings, and IEEE standards.
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PubMed (1946 - ) This link opens in a new windowOver 3,500 journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine. Includes the entire Medline database (1966+) PLUS PreMedline (recent articles that are not yet fully indexed for Medline) and links to publisher full-text web sites and other databases. Learn more about this database
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Scopus This link opens in a new windowThe world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Contains over 46 million records, 70% with abstracts, and also includes over 4.6 million conference papers. NOTE: Click "Institutions" icon in right corner. Change organization to Washington University in St Louis John M Olin Library, Danforth Campus.
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Web of Science (1900 - ) This link opens in a new windowScience, social science, arts, and humanities citations for scholarly literature. Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. The Libraries subscribe to Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1970-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).
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MOBIUSUse MOBIUS to borrow books from other academic libraries in Missouri. Most books are available for pickup at the WU library of your choice usually within 3-5 days. To search MOBIUS directly, use the "SEARCH MOBIUS" at the top in WU Classic Catalog.
Authority is constructed and contextual.
- Different types of Authority depending on the subject, situation, and societal situation.
- Research tools and indicators of authority to determine the credibility of sources; understanding the elements that might temper credibility.
- “standards” of authority by subject areas. Engineering sources vs. gender-studies sources.
- Understanding the social nature of the information ecosystem where authorities actively connect with one another and sources develop over time.
From the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy
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Associated Press Collections Online This link opens in a new windowAssociated Press Collections Online includes decades' worth of access to an array of internal AP publications and records from select AP bureaus. Contents provided by Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive.
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Creative Commons Image SearchSearch for free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.
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Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new windowThis resource offers a single point of access to millions of items including photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Users can browse and search the DPLA's collections by timeline, map, format, and topic. Users can also save items to customized lists and share their lists with others.
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Factiva (6 users) This link opens in a new windowCombines more than 35,000 sources for access to premium content from 200 countries in 26 languages. Worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, web and social media, tweets, digital video and audio clips, analyst reports, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data. Limited to 6 simultaneous users; logoff when finished. Learn more about this database
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National Geographic Virtual Library (1888-2015) This link opens in a new windowA digital archive of National Geographic magazine, including every page and every photograph. Now you have access to the complete archive of National Geographic magazine. Also includes a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.
