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====This wiki is designed to pull all the elements you need for a successful research project together in one place. From **forming a question** that makes your research project make the grade, to **searching for information** effectively at school or elsewhere, to **taking great notes** that help the final product come together, to **citing** the whole thing properly, this is your starting place.==== ||
 * [[image:baltimorecitycollegelibrary/research.jpg width="119" height="84"]] || =Doing Research?=

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 * [[image:baltimorecitycollegelibrary/Databases_@_Blackboard.jpg width="138" height="126"]] || == Some Quick Resources ==

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= Designed by information professionals and subject experts to support global awareness and the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills, issues and countries form the core of this dynamic product, which uses a wealth of resources to explain the historical and contemporary conditions necessary to understand global issues, conflicts and events. Global Issues in Context supports research in virtually every corner of the library and in a wide variety of subject areas, including sociology, current events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women’s studies, human rights, English composition and many more. = = = = MasterFILE = = MasterFILE Premier provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. This database also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags. = = = = MAS Ultra School Edition = = This comprehensive database contains full text for top high-school magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II and much more. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides full text for tens of thousands of biographies and primary source documents, hundreds of reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book), an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. = = = = Science Reference Center = = This database is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other sources. Topics covered in Science Reference Center include biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Science Reference Center also satisfies the demand for standards-based content by providing teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards. = = = = History Reference Center = = History Reference Center also includes full text for more than 200 leading history periodicals, including American's Civil War, American Heritage, American Historical Review, American History, Archaeology, Aviation, British Heritage, Canada’s History, Civil War Times, Heritage New Zealand, International Journal of Korean History, Military History, Teaching History, African Studies Quarterly, Ancient Egypt Magazine, American Indian Quarterly, Arab Studies Quarterly, Australian Aboriginal Studies, Australian Historical Studies, Chinese Studies in History, Early Medieval Europe, Family & Community History, Historical Research, Jewish History, Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Journal of Pacific Studies, Muslim World, Russian Studies in History, Women’s History Review, Middle East Journal and more. = = = = **Biography in Context** = = Biography in Context (formerly the Biography Resource Center) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 180,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 242,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path. = = = = **Literature Resource Center** = = The Literature Resource Center is an online full-text database that accesses biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. It provides novel, short story, drama, poetry, and some non-fiction criticism and interpretation. = = = = = ||
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 * = ==media type="custom" key="21794054"== ||= psst! You can also register for [[image:baltimorecitycollegelibrary/noodletools.jpg link="@http://www.noodletools.com/"]] (a research and citation management tool) ||

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