InfoGuides: UWRT 150 Writing Seminar (Saba), RIT Dubai: Databases

Last Updated: Feb 5, 2025 11:06 AM

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Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database of articles from scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters, and newspapers.
Proquest Complete This link opens in a new window
All-in-one database that provides coverage for nearly all academic areas of study including arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences and current affairs.
EBSCO This link opens in a new window
This scholarly collection provides coverage for nearly all academic areas of study.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Features full-text articles (backfiles) of more than 2,800 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Access includes content from the primary sources collections, multidisciplinary collections, and discipline specific collections. JSTOR also features multimedia content and includes Artstor, a cross-disciplinary collection of over 2 million images for use in research and teaching.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to over 600 high quality, peer reviewed journals from leading scholarly publishers primarily in the humanities and social sciences. We subscribe to the premium collection.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Our subscription provides access to over 1500 journals. Electronic books are not part of our subscription.
News & Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text of regional, national, and international newspapers.

Articles about Controversial Issues

RIT's Library subscribes to two different databases that focus on controversial issues: Opposing Viewpoints and CQ Researcher. Browsing the topics listed in either database can be an effective way to identify "hot topics" of interest. The information in these databases include scholarly/peer reviewed articles as well as other types like magazines, viewpoint articles, newspapers, etc., that are not considered scholarly.

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Click the "Browse Issues" option near the top of this database's screen for a full list of interesting topics.
CQ Researcher Online This link opens in a new window
Choose "Browse Topics" from the top menu to view a list of topics by subject (e.g. Science and Technology).

UWRT 150 Writing Seminar (Saba), RIT Dubai: Databases

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