SW 110 (Tirona) FA 2021

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Use "quotation marks" around "specific phrases" and add site:org, site:edu and site:gov to get more specific results!! Here are some sample searches:

• "criminal record expungement" "fee waivers" site:gov
• "black lives matter" "transgender women" site:org

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Background & Introductory Databases

• Gale eBooks is a great database for 3-7 page overviews/introductions to a topic, person, or thing. Here are some sample searches/results:
  • Black Lives Matter
  • SNAP Benefits
  • Immigration Reform

Recommended Databases

• EBSCOhost: All Databases: MiraCosta Library's largest database for eBooks, journal articles, magazine articles, news sources, and more! Here are some sample searches/results:
  • "Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds"
  • "Housing First and homelessness"
  • "Me Too Movement"
  • DACA students "community college"

Find pro/con viewpoints on social issues and current news

• Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

  A social issues database with full-text periodical articles, viewpoint essays, reference material, statistics, topic overviews and websites, organized under popular research topic headings.

• CQ Researcher

  Weekly Congressional Quarterly Press reports offering analysis of most current major controversial issues with summaries, pros and cons, statistics, and bibliographies. 

Newspaper Articles

*MiraCosta subscribes to several magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times. Search an article title within the Library's newspaper databases.

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Film & Video Databases

MiraCosta Library subscribes to many film and video databases you can use to find documentaries about - and scholars discussing - many different topics. Check out the list of our video databases here!

Find popular movies and documentaries with SWANK and Kanopy Streaming.