FindSources
Discover resources through the library that represent a variety of approaches and enable you to explore topics in depth from multiple perspectives.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
•Seminal(foundational)works
•Recentdevelopments
•Scholarly/peer-reviewedworks
•Researchstudies
•Theoreticaldiscussions
www.Liberty.edu/Library➔Browsealldatabases➔ Narrowbysubject(i.e.,Government,Politics,etc.)
BOOKS AND E-BOOKS
•Scholarlyperspectivesbyexperts
•Extendedandcollectivediscussions
•Methodologicalapproaches
www.Liberty.edu/Library➔Bookstab➔Searchbooks
DISSERTATIONS AND THESES
•In-depthresearch
•Examplesofresearchapproaches
www.Liberty.edu/Library➔Browsealldatabases➔ ProQuestDissertations&ThesesGlobal AND
ScholarsCrossing(LUDissertations&Theses)
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
•Currenteventsandemergingdevelopments
www.Liberty.edu/Library➔Browsealldatabases➔ Subjectdrop-downmenu➔News&CurrentEvents
Combine Search Strategies
Youcancombinesearch strategiesinadatabase'sadvancedsearch bygroupingyoursearch termstomoreeffectively locaterelevantresults.
("Gun Control" OR "Gun Rights") AND "Mental Health"AND Politic*
In addition to combining quotation marks and Boolean operators(AND, OR, NOT), you can use a wildcard to search for variations of a word.
In this example, you can use an asterisk(*) to replace one or more letters at the end of the word. For instance, politic* will return any word that begins with those letters such as:
• Politic1
• Politician
• Politicize
• Politicking
• Politicization
Search results will include either "gun control" OR "gun rights" OR both. Additionally, the results will need to include BOTH "mental health" AND a word that begins with politic.
ConsiderPlagiarism&Copyright
Whileyouareexpectedtobuildonpreviousresearchandscholarship,itisimportantthatyoudosoinanethicaland legalway. Thisrequiresyoutoconsiderbothplagiarismandcopyrightinfringement.
Plagiarismisusingsomeoneelse'sworkorideas withoutgivingpropercredit.Itisanissueofethics andacademicintegrity.
•Youcanavoidplagiarismbyproperlycitingany typeofresourcethatyouquote,paraphrase,oruse.
•Thisincludestextaswellasimages,videoclips, music,worksofart,etc.
CopyrightinfringementisdefinedinUnitedStateslawasthe unauthorizedcopyingofsomeoneelse'soriginalcreativework thathasbeenwritten,recorded,orotherwisepreservedinsome way(e.g.,text,images,tables,graphs,testinginstruments, audiovisualmaterials).Itisalegalissue.
•Copyrightprotectionisautomatic.
•Ingeneral,authors/creatorshaveexclusiverightsto: oMakecopiesorderivativeworks
oSellortransferownership
oPerform,display,ortransmitthework
•Avoidcopyrightinfringementbyobtainingpermissionfrom thecopyrightholdertoreproducecopyrightedimages,music, testinginstruments,charts,etc.inyourdissertation.Youmay alsoneedtoaskpermissiontopublishthemifyourdepartment requirespublicationofyourdissertation.
