Readers' Guide Abstracts is a wonderful resource to use for popular sources because nearly everything included is popular. Many other databases allow users to limit their results popular sources. For instance, here's an image of how you can limit to Magazines as a source type after you do a search in Academic Search Complete, from EBSCO.
Books can be either scholarly or popular. A few clues you can look for to determine which kind of book you have found are:
For help with searching books at WIU, jump to the Finding Books tab of this guide.
This database lets you search through newspaper articles from the United States and overseas. You can find feature articles as well as editorials and opinion pieces. You can search in one newspaper or in news sources from a geographic area such as a city, state, or country. All the articles mentioned in your results list are fully available in the database; no need to go to any other site to get the full text. |