Finding Secondary Sources
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Finding Secondary Sources (6:05)
Sports
- Harvard University Athletics (Harvard University Archives guide)
- Oxford Bibliography on College Athletics is an annotated bibliography of secondary sources.
- The LA84 Foundation Digital Library Collections includes both primary and secondary sources on sports history. To search just secondary sources, choose Advanced Search, then "Show all", then uncheck all boxes except for "Scholarly Books, Dissertations and Reports Collection".
History
- America: History and Life (1955- ) includes books, book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews on North American history.
Education
Note: in these EBSCO databases, two words together in a search field, college softball are treated as a phrase, so search college AND softball, pr put the two words in separate search boxes
- Education Source (1929- ) indexes articles of at least one column length from more than 535 English-language journals and yearbooks worldwide. Records of books (1995- ) are included. Includes book reviews.
- ERIC (1966- ) includes published and unpublished reports and other sources from RIE (Resources in Education) and periodical articles from CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). No book reviews.
Race
- Race Relations Abstracts provides indexing to "essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline."
Gender and Sexuality
- GenderWatch (1974- ) provides full text of scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, non-governmental organization, and special reports.
- LGBT Life with Full Text indexes magazines, academic journals, news sources, gray literature, and books that deal with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender concerns.
General
- Academic Search Premier (largely 1980s- ) is the usual index of first resort for general periodical searches. It indexes over 3000 journals in most fields plus many general interest periodicals. Full text is available for many of the periodicals. Includes Time full text back to 1923. Book reviews are included. A few periodicals have indexing back to the 1970s.
- Web of Science Citation Indexes allow citation searching, that is, starting with an article of interest and finding more recent articles that have cited it.