El Paso Community College Databases Beneficial to Informative & Controversial Needs:
Please access the various databases to supplement your research on your informative and controversial topics. These databases provide you access to additional newspapers, eBooks, peer-reviewed publications, images, reference sources, and other information resource types. Please ensure you know your credentials (email & password) as they will be required to submit for access to online databases. Databases are great resources to use since they have strong, reliable, resources.
Provides social issues viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Sources used are the Opposing Viewpoints Series from Greenhaven Press, as well as other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA core reference sources. Includes Lexile reading levels.
Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and hundreds of videos.
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
El Paso Times Newspaper Archive-
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1881 - current.
When prompted, ensure you are logged into the databases with your EPCC email and password.
Searching with academic databases are much different than google! Remember, you must use key terms and subjects. On Google, if you are researching controversial material in a career field, you may be able to type in "What are some controversial issues police officers face." In our databases, though, please use terms. The following examples below are Boolean Searches that can be used by your academic databases.
"Police Officers" AND Brutality
"Police Officers" AND Profiling
"Police Officers" AND Training AND Profiling
EBSCO provides additional instructions on how to perform searches with Boolean search operators.
