Research Guides: Dual Enrollment Resources for Students &amp; Instructors (LSU DE ENGL): 6. Research Resources and Where to Find Them!

LSU Libraries

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LSU Libraries

State Library Resources

The Louisiana State Library has a large collection of online databases and materials that you can access from your computer. The link below will take you the State Library's Louisiana Library Connection page. Take a look at the databases being offered - there might be some specific to your research interest!

Louisiana Library Connection

Getting Started

The sources listed here can help you get started in your research whether it's using them to browse different topics that might interest you or finding more background information on your topic.

Explora Quick Search (provided by the State Library of Louisiana)
Reliable content from the world's leading magazines and reference books in the EBSCO databases. Browse categories organized by popular topic, with overviews that provide a starting point for your research; or use the simple search that quickly delivers relevant results, including primary source documents, news articles, and Associated Press videos.
The Conversation
The Conversation is an independent, nonprofit publisher of commentary and analysis, authored by academics and edited by journalists for the general public. We publish short articles (800-1000 words) by academics on timely topics related to their research.Their mission is “to promote truthful information and strengthen journalism by unlocking the rich diversity of academic research for audiences across America.”
Science Daily
ScienceDaily features breaking news about the latest discoveries in science, health, the environment, technology, and more -- from leading universities, scientific journals, and research organizations. Visitors can browse more than 500 individual topics, grouped into 12 main sections (listed under the top navigational menu). Stories are posted daily, selected from press materials provided by hundreds of sources from around the world. Links to sources and relevant journal citations (where available) are included at the end of each post.
Biography Reference Center (provided by the State Library of Louisiana)
EBSCO's comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (provided by the State Library of Louisiana)
Literary criticism, author biographies and business resources. Includes Twayne's and Scribner.
History Reference Center (provided by the State Library of Louisiana)
EBSCO's History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Science Reference Center (provided by State Library of Louisiana)
EBSCO's Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

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Scholarly Information (aka where to find articles)

Academic Search Complete from EBSCOHost (provided by State Library of Louisiana)
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Consumer Health Complete (provided by the State Library of Louisiana)
Convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information from EBSCO. Search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles. NOTE: There are some academic journals available through this database as well.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 22% of which comes from sponsors and 78% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. EXPANDED ACCESS: Free read-online access has expanded from six to 100 articles per month — simply register for a free account at https://about.jstor.org/covid19/.
Full EBSCOHost Suite from the Louisiana State Library
By choosing this link you will be searching over 35 EBSCOHost databases provided by the Louisiana State Library. While this will most likely give you a larger results lists, that means you will have to do more work in narrowing your search through the use of limiters (found on the left of the results screen).

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Scholarly Information (aka where to find articles)

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