"A secondary source is second-hand information written or created after an event. Secondary sources may summarize, interpret, review, or criticize existing events or works. Secondary sources were written or created after an event by people who were not at the original event. Secondary sources can be many formats including books, articles, encyclopedias, textbooks, or a scholar’s interpretation of past events or conditions." (Source)
This list contains links to Pepperdine provided databases, an organized and searchable collection of information, which contain scholarly articles useful to your research. For any assistance searching these, understanding your results, or recommendations on which databases to search, please contact me directly.
Multidisciplinary Databases. These databases tend to cover a wider range of topics, especially compared to those below.
The Cambridge University Press currently publishes 370 peer-reviewed academic journals containing the latest research from a wide range of subject areas. Access is provided to volumes from 2000-2016.
Full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.
Collection of academic and research journals covering humanities, social sciences, life sciences, mathematics & physical sciences, medicine and law.
Multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Specialized Databases. These databases contain information around more specific topics than those above.
Articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics, including SWOT analyses and articles from Harvard Business Review.
Journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Controller, Military Review, Parameters, Defense, Business Week, Combat Edge, Economist, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Military Technology, Naval Forces, and many more. Many full-text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full-text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
The American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource of peer-reviewed articles in psychology, behavioral science and mental health.
Tips for searching:
Browsing the shelves at one of our libraries? Look for books with the following letters on their labels:
If you find any articles, books, or book chapters you would like to read but cannot access through the Pepperdine Libraries you can make a request to ask other libraries to send it to you. To request something, either locate it using the library search and click the request button on the item page or fill out the form manually following this link: https://pepperdine.account.worldcat.org/account/requests/
You can learn more about interlibrary loan through this guide here: https://infoguides.pepperdine.edu/interlibraryloan
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