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Researching Illegal Immigration Issues


Databases for Finding Newspaper, Magazine & Journal Articles

Catalog for Finding Books
Evaluating Web Resources


Databases for Magazine & Journal Articles

(What is the difference between popular magazines and academic journals?)

Gale PowerSearch databases - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
articles from academic journals, popular magazines and newspapers; excellent set of general periodical databases.
 

JSTOR - Scholarly journals archives - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Back issues of important academic journals, including many historical journals (no current issues) going back to 1838. Best for in-depth academic journal articles on all historical topics except recent history and articles published within the last 3 – 5 years

Google Scholar  
Google’s academic search engine accesses a wide range of academic articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, and universities.  
Often only abstracts (summaries) are included in
sources retrieved by Google Scholar.  In most cases, you can retrieve the full-text of these articles by using the Skyline College Library Article Delivery Service.


Books

The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System.

  • Type in search word(s) for your topic in the first search box and click the Submit button.
  • The search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the PLS system.
  • To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library, scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select Skyline College & then click the Submit button.

 

Evaluating web sources

Use the guidelines in Evaluating Web Pages to decide whether the following sources are appropriate to use for a college-level research paper:

1. Do Illegal Aliens Have Constitutional Rights?

2. The Dark Side Of Illegal Immigration

3. Congress and Illegal Immigration

4. Illegal Immigrants Move from America's Edges to the Center

5. Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010

6. Illegal Immigration Does Not Threaten America

7. US immigration reform: from G.W. Bush to B.H. Obama

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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last revised: 3-2-11
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA