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Research Help
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Get Started with Research
You can find reliable research resources on the library homepage. Watch this video for a brief introduction on finding books and articles and getting research help when you need it.
A library database is a searchable collection of resources you can use for research such as articles, eBooks, audiobooks, encyclopedias, videos, and more. Students have access to subscription-only content that is kept behind expensive paywalls for the general public but CT State offers for free through the library.
Try these different search terms when searching the library's databases.
- Cost of living
- Employment
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Labor economics
- Labor movement
- Labor policy
- Living wage movement
- Minimum wage
- Poverty
- Unemployment
- Universal Basic Income
- Wages
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.Indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals. View the EBSCO Search Tutorial Video
Academic Search Complete is a great database to use for all research projects. It has over 8,000 journals on many different topics. You can find peer-reviewed articles as well as newspapers and popular magazines.
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In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window Opposing Viewpoints offers material to support differing views to help develop critical thinking skills on thousands of current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia. Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues, including racism, capital punishment, global warming, and voting rights with reference sources, newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly journals, court cases, government documents, viewpoints, maps, images, audio, video and websites.
In Context: Opposing Viewpoints provides overviews of hundreds of current topics in the news. You can find scholarly articles as well as video, newspapers and magazines.
Using the Library Catalog
The library catalog at the top of the library homepage is used to find books, article, movies, textbooks and more. It's a great place to start your research projects. View the short video below for search tips.
