InfoGuides: UWRT 150 Writing Seminar (Schmitz): Articles

Last Updated: Nov 8, 2024 12:52 PM

Finding Articles

Some topics you can consider:

Environmental and Climate Change
Social Justice (for various groups, ie, Blacks, Deaf, the poor, disabled)
Political Climate
Reproductive Rights
Voting Rights
Labor Rights

The library has many databases that have scholarly, newspaper, and magazine articles. You may want to use a literature review tool like Research Rabbit. Then, you can look for the journal and article you want.

Tip: You must access the databases through the library website. If you go to Google and find an article you like and it asks you to pay for it, DO NOT pay for it. It is probably in our databases or you can get the article for free through our interlibrary loan services.

Summon This link opens in a new window
Summon is a discovery tool which searches across most of RIT's article databases.

Research Rabbit Presentation

Start With These Databases

Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database of articles from scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters, and newspapers.
CQ Researcher Online This link opens in a new window
Reporting & analysis of political & social issues, with topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology & the U.S. economy.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Full text viewpoint essays and articles on current social and political issues.
News & Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text of regional, national, and international newspapers.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Selected full text for regional, US and international newspapers. Full text of major television & radio news transcripts are provided.
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.
SIRS Issues Researcher This link opens in a new window
SIRS Knowledge Source (SKS) is an online interface that provides integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents, Internet resources and graphics from SIRS highly-acclaimed reference databases.