One Person Can Change the World Symposium

For college level research, we will often use library databases to find scholarly articles and research studies from academic journal publications. A library database is an electronic collection of information and documents, and can include newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, videos, and more. The library pays for access to copyrighted material through database subscriptions. Though we access databases by using a web browser, databases are not considered "the Internet." Unlike Google or Google Scholar, we can expect:

NSU Libraries provide access to hundreds of library databases on a variety of subjects.

Choose a database that best matches the subject for your topic. Library databases may be multidisciplinary (many subjects), subject-specific (focusing on a single subject, e.g., history or medicine), or dedicated to one type of resource (like newspapers or dissertations). 

If you're stuck on what database to choose for your research topic, Ask a Librarian!

Here are some database suggestions based on sample topics:

Keywords get at the "aboutness" of our topic. We can often pull our first keywords from our research question.

Our first keywords would be TikTok ban, civic engagement, young adults, United States.

What is your word for?

We can get better results by combining keywords and Boolean operators.