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Paul Voelker
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Paul Voelker
Director, Klarchek Information Commons
IC-110
Director, Klarchek Information Commons
IC-110
773.508.3949
Subjects: Philosophy, Sociology
All-Hours Research Help
Generalist librarians offer particularly helpful guidance with online source identification and access.
News Analysis
This guide provides access to recommended research databases for the assignment and suggests strategies for using those databases. It also presents alternate source types that may also be of interest.
Finding Newspaper Articles
- US NewsstreamProvides access to the text of hundreds of international, national, and regional newspapers including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.
- Search notesHow to find only articles that may be suitable for the assignment.
Finding Magazine Articles
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the text of prominent magazines including The Atlantic, Time, The New Yorker, and Foreign Policy.
- Search notesHow to find only articles that may be suitable for the assignment.
Other Sources of Interest
- Wall Street Journal Health NewsThis page displays recent Wall Street Journal articles on health care issues but the articles themselves are inaccessible except to subscribers; get the articles in ProQuest Newsstand using the search strategy illustrated below.
- Bioethics.comFind discussions of issues including medicine, science, and technology.
- BioEdgeRead issues of this weekly newsletter on timely issues.
- bioethics.netRead posts on this blog created by The American Journal of Bioethics.
- Bioethics BulletinFind news and analysis from the Berman Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Citing Sources
Your assignment asks that you choose a citation style and use it to document the article you analyze. The NCSU Citation Builder provides accurate templates for the most heavily used source types in the major citation styles.