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FYE 1000 AKRON First-Year Foundations: Books, Ebooks, Articles

Research resources for Akron students

Getting Started

The Morgan Library LancerQuest Search is the library's response to Google. Enter your search terms in the search box and click "Search".  

Don't get overwhelmed by the large number of results. Use the limiters listed to the left of the results.  

  • You can limit to peer-reviewed articles, books, newspaper articles, etc.
  • Other limiter options include: date, author, subjects, databases.

You will also want to combine terms to get focused results, i.e.  

tolerant and "generation y"

pressure and "college students"

"culturally aware" and millennials

Using quotation marks around two or more words searches them as a phrase giving you better results.

Points of View Database

Points of View Reference Source is a full text database designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.

Points of View Reference Center introductory tutorial:

Books and More

To narrow down your search use the ADVANCED Search and combine concepts and/or search in specific fields (i. e. subject, title, author).  

Other Journal Articles

This comprehensive multidisciplinary database provides access to scholarly and popular full-text journals, magazines, and other resources.

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