1000 - 2000 Level Classes
Most courses with numbers between 1000 and 2999 are designed to help you understand the basic ideas and techniques of the area of study. Papers or assignments for these courses can usually be completed by using what we call a multi-disciplinary database. Information you find on the Internet using Google will not be good sources for your papers, even at this level of class. So use the databases the Libraries provide to get the best sources.
A database will collect information from many sources and organize it so you can find journal articles, book information, and book reviews easily. They do this by providing subjects or tags which you can search.
There are several good general databases which Baylor subscribes to, but there are a few which will read aloud the article to you. So these are a good one to use to help you understand English. I've listed these below. To have the article read to you, click on the article's title and look for the LISTEN button.
Use the tips and ideas from the "Planning Your Paper" tab to select keywords to search in the database listed below.
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Academic OneFileIncludes articles from newspapers, popular magazines, and scholarly journals. Look for the LISTEN button to have the article read to you.
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Expanded academic ASAPProvides broad coverage of news sources (including video), popular, trade, and scholarly journals on a wide range of topics. Good starting place to find or narrow a topic. Gale Cengage.
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Gale virtual reference libraryProvides online access to a significant number of reference works published by Gale. Includes works in all academic subjects, and includes encyclopedias, literary criticism (individual works, authors, and movements/genres), biographical dictionaries, directories, and dictionaries (of events, ideas, and movements). Most entries have the option of being read (includes downloading an MP3 of the computer-voice reading). Gale Cengage.
3000 - 5000 level classes
Courses with numbers 3000 and greater will be more focused on a specific topic. You will need to use more scholarly or "peer-reviewed" journals for papers and assignments for these courses. Each discipline has a subject-specific database. I have listed a few of these below. I've chosen ones which still have the LISTEN button which will read the article to you.
Information you find on the Internet using Google will not be good sources for your papers, especially for class with numbers of 3000 or higher. So use the databases the Libraries provide to get the best sources.
If these databases don't provide enough information for you, please make an appointment to work with the Subject Librarian for the course you are taking. He or she can help you find the best sources. Here is a link to the list of our subject librarians:
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Business economics & theory collectionOffers access to a collection of peer-reviewed(scholarly), full-text articles in HTML or PDF format covering business administration and economic theory. Intended primarily for the academic researcher, this resource is part of the larger Academic OneFile database. Gale Cengage.
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Diversity studies collectionCovers ethnic and social diversity issues. Includes news sources (the largest group of publications), magazines (the second largest group of publications), and academic journals. This collection is part of the larger Academic Onefile database. Searchable by keyword, entire document, subjects, abstracts, author, brand name, company name, person name, place name, document title, etc. Coverage: 1980 to present day. Gale Cengage.
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Fine arts & music collectionIndexes nearly 500 000 articles in fine arts and music. Browsable by subject and publication. Options to limit to full text and/or peer-reviewed publications.
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General science collectionProvides reference and some full-text materials for general science and engineering intended for the academic researcher. Includes particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and other areas beginning from 1980. In addition to academic journals, magazines, books, news, and multimedia are indexed. Search by keyword, author, publisher, etc. Limit by document type, year, etc. Browse by subject or publication.
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Hospitality tourism & leisure collectionCovers tourism, hospitality, and leisure industries and more.
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Psychology collectionProvides information on journal articles and reports covering psychology, intended primarily for academic researchers, beginning from 1980. Covers abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social, and applied psychology. Search by keyword, author, publisher, etc. Limit by document type, year, etc. Browse by subject or publication. This collection is part of the larger Academic OneFile database. Gale Cengage.
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Religion & philosophy collectionProvides a collection of (mostly) peer-reviewed articles, with some full text in HTML and PDF format covering studies in religion and philosophy, intended primarily for academic researchers.
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Small business collectionOffers access to a collection of full-text, scholarly articles in HTML or PDF covering small business research.
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US history collectionIndex.es and provides abstracts to articles in about 40 journals (scholarly and popular) in history. History is defined broadly to include journals covering folklore, ecology, religion, and archaeology, among others. Coverage dates are 1980 - present
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World history collectionProvides indexing and access to scholarly and popular journals covering all aspects and regions of world history from about 1450 to the present. Selection of approximately 2 dozen scholarly journals complemented by about that many popular journals. Very focused selection of journals (a search for Chinese History returned 14 results), but a good starting point for topic discovery and information. Once there is a focused topic, use additional databases (like Historical Abstracts) to broaden the results and retrieve additional scholarly research articles. Search by keyword, subject, author, title or browse by topic. Gale Cengage.
