This guide is intended to provide you with the background you need to find relevant resources for your issues paper. You'll find information on determining if information is reliable. The "Locating books" section offers a quick search box for the online catalog as well as next steps if the item you want is not available at Dana. In the Locating journal articles section, you'll find descriptions of two databases, Academic Search Premier and CINAHL, that should be important sources for your paper as well as additional database suggestions. The remaining sections discuss finding articles in fulltext and then organizing citations in a citation manager.
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