1. What are your Interests?
2. Background Research
3. Narrow Topic
4. Create Research Question
What is a Scholarly Article?
Scholarly (or Academic or Peer-Reviewed) Articles are:
1. Locate keywords in your research question by identifying the main concepts
What role has American media played in furthering the anti-immigration movement?
2. Create synonyms/related terms of your main topics.
Spelling counts! Not seeing many results? Double-check your spelling.
Try "Phrase Searching" - Place quotation marks around keywords you want to keep together.
Examples: "social media" "Mexican American"
Keyword searching is not an exact science and you'll need to experiment with many different combinations to find the best ones.
Cross-search all EBSCO databases (50+); magazines, journals, ebooks, news and primary sources, covering multi-disciplinary topics.
Gale Archives Unbound collections are a subset of Gale Primary Sources. MiraCosta College Library has access to over 300 collections covering African American Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, LGBT Studies, Women's Studies, and many other topics.