This research guide includes links to databases, sites and resources to help you locate sources for research in this class. For your writing assignments, and your final paper in particular, feel free to refer to the tabs for Finding Scholarly Articles, Finding Books, Citing Sources and other tabs.
Background research sources, often called tertiary sources, summarize, digest or synthesize information from primary and secondary sources. Encyclopedias, handbooks, and biographical dictionaries may be tertiary sources.