Your research needs and assignment requirements will dictate the types of sources you will use to successfully complete your work. These may include scholarly, peer-reviewed articles, news sources, government documents, or data. In the following sections you can find a variety of sources separated by type which may be of use to you in your work.
If you would like to talk more about which sources would be best for you or would like assistance locating specific information, please reach out at any time! No question is too small.
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Use these databases as starting points for searching for scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. The subjects covered and journals housed within these databases range over multiple subjects.
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 databases and popular databases ranging from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases.
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.
Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
The material on this page is not peer-reviewed, but can still be relevant. Much of this is known as grey literature, information produced outside of the standard academic and commercial channels. This can include working papers, reports, and policy briefs.
Working papers & international research from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Research reports on Children and Families, Education and the Arts, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Infrastructure and Transportation, International Affairs, Law and Business, National Security, Public Safety, Science and Technology.
Primary sources are original records or objects create by participants at the time of historical events. Below are a handful of primary sources of interest. For further assistance locating primary sources for your work please email me at nicholas.dandrea@pepperdine.edu.
Archive of periodicals documenting the history of African American religious life and culture between 1829 and 1922. Includes newspapers and magazines, plus reports and annuals from African American religious organizations, including churches and social service agencies. Trial ends June 4, 2024. Provide trial feedback.
Series I offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876
Digitized archival materials from the Library of Congress, including legal and historical materials.
Full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press; also provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Trial ends June 28, 2024. Provide trial feedback.
Focus on social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries including speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art.
Documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945, compiled by top scholars and experts.
Access to extensive data in the areas of labor, economics and statistics. Includes links to state and regional resources.
Provides professionally fact-checked and footnoted reports on the most current and controversial issues of the day.
Demographic data mapping tool for custom reports, plus directory data of U.S. businesses and consumers.
A database with over hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from national, international, public, and private sources.
Market and industry research reports with key statistics, industry conditions, market share, industry performance, market drivers, key success factors, and revenue forecasts for each US industry. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research collection of social science data. First time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account.
You can use this search bar to locate books for your work. If you would like assistance in navigating our catalog, please email me at nicholas.dandrea@pepperdine.edu.
If you are at one of our libraries and would like to browse the books in person, use the call numbers below to locate books related to your interests.
Did you know if there is a book at any Pepperdine Library in California, you can have it placed on hold for you at Payson Library? If a book is marked as available in the catalog, just press the request button on book page and library staff will pull it for you and it will be placed on the hold shelf. This also includes books at Payson.
Full-text access to The Economist magazine, covering 1997 to present and related web content.
Indexing and full-text access to the Los Angeles Times. Covers 1985 to now.
**Access requires logging in with a Pepperdine email on the NY Times homepage. Find step-by-step log-in instructions on the access guide to log in. **
Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.
Access to The New York Times (1980 - present), Washington Post (1987 - present), Los Angeles Times (1985 - present), Chicago Tribune, (1985 - present), and Wall Street Journal (1984 - present).
**Access requires logging in with a WSJ.com account. Register using your Pepperdine email address.** Get unlimited access to WSJ.com, WSJ mobile apps, curated newsletters and podcasts.
Use these databases to search for legal specific information.
Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
Rules, treaties and analysis regarding international humanitarian law.
Reference materials are publications materials which contain collections of particular information created to have sections referred to when needed and, if they're physically accessible, can only be used in the library. Encyclopedias and dictionaries are both examples.
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 for our staff to ask other libraries to send it to us. To request something, either locate it in the library catalog, open the individual library record, and click the request button. This will fill out the request form and all you need to do is update your information. You can also 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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