RAM - Research Aligned Mentorship
Articles and Databases
Search databases to find articles in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, reference sources, and other publications. Access from off campus with your FSC username and password.
Search Everything
Use the "Search Everything" tab on the Library’s homepage to search across all library
collections, including books, ebooks, journals, magazines, newspapers, and other publications.
Articles include international business related subjects.
Academic Search Complete
Articles from academic journals, newspapers, and magazines useful for many subjects.
A great place to get started with research.
Applied Science & Technology Source
Applied Science & Technology Source offers extensive coverage of research and development within the applied sciences and computing disciplines This resource offers full text for almost 1,200 journals, citations to millions of articles.
Britannica Academic External link
Topic overviews, including biographies, articles, and media. Covers a wide range of
subjects.
Comprehensive, authoritative data on international companies and industries. It features SWOT analyses, financial reports, market share data, and industry profiles, making it ideal for business research, marketing, and investment analysis. Access company histories, brand info, and articles.
Includes SWOT reports. Scholarly journals, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and more in all disciplines of business.
A search engine that provides links to articles from academic publishers, professional societies,
preprint repositories and scholarly articles posted on the web.
Humanities Index
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, covering almost 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
Full-text for scholarly sources in the humanities. Including feature articles, interviews,
obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of
ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more.
JSTOR
Articles from academic journals in a range of subjects, including criminal justice, law, sociology, social work, psychology, urban studies, and more.
A Greenley Library research guide for accessing newspaper articles
Opposing Viewpoints
Articles from academic journals, magazines, and reference books. Also includes audio
of news reporting and interviews, videos, statistics, geographic data, and more.
Proquest Research Library
Articles from academic journals, trade publications, and magazines across many subjects,
including business.
Science Direct
ScienceDirect hosts over 3,800 journals and more than 37,000 books—over 15 million
peer-reviewed publications (and growing) from Elsevier, our imprints and our society
partners.
Social Sciences Full text
Articles from peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and trade publications in the following
subjects: addiction studies, anthropology, community health & medical care, communications,
economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography,
incarceration, international relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political
science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, racism, social work, urban studies
and more.
Statista
Tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information.
The Wall Street Journal (Proquest)
Books
Print Books Search for books in the Library's catalog. Also find print materials via the "Books and eBooks" tab on the Library website. Search by topic, title, author, etc.
- Circulating Books: Located on the Lower Level. Check out up to 10 books for 2 weeks at a time with your FSC ID
- Reference Books: Located on the First Floor. Must be used within the Library. Includes encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, test prep books, etc.
eBooks Search for ebooks via the "Books and eBooks" tab on the Library website. Search by topic, title, author, etc. View materials as a PDF and access from off campus with your FSC username and password.
Websites
Pew Research Center
A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends
shaping the world through conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content
analysis and other data-driven social science research.
U.S. Census
Census and American Community Survey data showing demographic data for the United
States and Puerto Rico.
CIA World Factbook
Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications,
transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
EPA.gov
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law School
Open access to law, worldwide. The LII publishes electronic versions of core materials
in numerous areas of the law.
Citing Sources
See below for basic guidelines and examples of APA citation style.
APA Style Quiz
Why Cite?
Why you need to cite sources:
- Citing sources is the only way to use other people’s work without plagiarizing (i.e. if you are using any resource [journal article, book, website, report, interview, etc.], you NEED to give credit to the original source).
- The readers of your work need citations to learn more about your ideas and where they came from.
- Citing sources shows the amount of research you’ve done.
- Citing sources strengthens your work by lending outside support to your ideas.
In-Text Citations
In-text citations give credit to sources in the body of your paper. Use in-text citations when paraphrasing, directly quoting, or using ideas from sources.
- APA citation style uses the author-date method for in-text citations: Author(s)’ last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text.
- Names may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the date should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence.
- Include page numbers if you are directly quoting the material.
See APA How to Format Citations and Helpful Tips
Reference List
Citations in the Reference List must correspond to in-text citations; The word or
phrase you use in your in-text citations must be the first thing that appears on the
left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in the Reference List.
See APA Sample Title Page and Reference List
Formatting
- Separate page labeled “References,” double-spaced, same margins as rest of paper.
- Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent.
Author Names
- Alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
- Authors' names are inverted (last name, first initial).
- List all authors of a particular work for up to and including seven authors. If the work has more than seven authors, list the first six authors and then use ellipses (...) after the sixth author's name. After the ellipses, list the last author's name of the work.
Capitalization and Punctuation
- Capitalize only the first word of a title and subtitle and proper nouns (books, chapters, articles, web pages).
- Italicize titles of longer works such as books and journals.
- Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as journal articles or essays in edited collections.
Citation Help
For more details and examples of APA citation style, visit the following websites:
- Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- APA: The Basics of APA Style Tutorial
- The Writer’s Handbook: APA Documentation Guide (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Plagiarism.org: How Do I Cite Sources?
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