ZipSearch is the best place to start most research projects. It includes:
To learn how to use ZipSearch, including finding peer-reviewed articles, requesting books, and more, see these short tutorials.
If you are not able to find what you are looking for using ZipSearch, then please Contact the Library and we would be happy to help. You can also checkout the Library's Subject Guides for help researching a particular subject.
Multi-disciplinary source for scholarly, popular, professional, and news publications. This is a good place to start many searches or to gather material from various disciplines at once.
This resource assists researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects.
A primary resource covering current social issues that helps students discover, analyze, and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, writing assignments, debates, and presentations. By providing both pro and con perspectives on many topics, this is an excellent starting point for building an argumentative essay.
A news collection (including the Akron Beacon Journal), explore issues and events at the local, regional, and national level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people.
Provides cover-to-cover full-text access to many U.S. and international newspapers.