You need to find as many sources as you have group members to inform your group's class presentation session. Two of the sources must be scholarly, but you can also draw from magazines, news, blogs, web pages, podcasts, etc.
Scholarly sources are those which:
You can search for both books and articles in LibrarySearch, and there are filters, such as peer review for articles, that you can use. Once you've entered a search, sign in with your maine.edu credentials for the most access to full text.
Take a look at our LibrarySearch tutorial to get acquainted with this system:
For scholarly journal articles, while we can search all Fogler databases at once in LibrarySearch, we might benefit from a more focused, discipline-specific search by using individual databases. Here is a list of databases that might help you find information on LGBTQ-related topics:
You may also want to search Google Scholar, which searches a multidisciplinary, non-curated, collection of materials. If so, be sure to first go to Menu>Settings>Library Links and type University of Maine, click the box and save, to get access to the most full text.
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