Welcome!
This guide is for students taking UH 215: Moral Forum. The resources and tutorials here will help you find sources for your research beyond your class materials. Email me or make an appointment for help navigating these resources, coming up with a research strategy, finding a specific source, or any other questions that come up in your research process. If you can't make any of my appointment times, I'm happy to work with you to set up a time that works for you!
Guide Contents
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Finding Scholarly SourcesThis page includes recommended databases for finding outside sources on your Moral Forum topic, including scholarship and statistics.
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News and MagazinesThe University of Alabama Libraries provides digital access to a wealth of historical and contemporary newspapers and magazines. This page will get you started with a few that will be most helpful for this course.
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Writing and Citation HelpVisit this page for help with Chicago, APA, and MLA citation styles, information about citation managers, and the UA Writing Center.
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Honors College Resource GuideThis resource guide contains additional to links to databases and research support that may be useful to you in and beyond this course.
Getting Started
New to the UA Libraries? This video tutorial gives an overview of the Libraries' main search tools: Scout, the A-Z databases list, e-resources, and the library catalog.
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ScoutThe main search tool for UA Libraries, Scout allows you to search the catalog, most of the libraries' databases, and the digital repository Acumen. Scout is a great place to start a broad search on a topic, but more targeted searching may be more successful in the catalog or subject-specific databases.
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A-Z Databases ListIf you want to access to a specific database, you'll find it here. You can filter the list alphabetically, or browse databases by subject area or type of materials.
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E-ResourcesE-Resources, or E-Journals on the main Libraries page, allows you to search our journal and e-book collection by title, or browse by subject.
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Libraries CatalogSearch the traditional catalog to find print, ebook, music, sound recordings, video, video, and more in the Libraries' collections. The catalog is useful tool to help find specific items in the collection, rather than broad searching.
Scout is the libraries' main search tool. It searches most of our databases as well as the catalog. The video tutorials below guide you through searching in Scout.
Basic Searching in Scout
Advanced Searching in Scout
If you need materials that aren't available in the UA catalog, you can request them from another library via interlibrary loan. You can receive copies of physical books or scans of articles and book chapters. The video tutorial below provides instructions for setting up your account and requesting materials. A transcript is available at the link.
