SOC 308: Problems of Violence and Terrorism

Scholarly sources are those which:

• 1) are written by scholars
• 2) vetted in some way for accuracy
• 3) introduce new concepts, or new ways of thinking about existing concepts.

A good place to find scholarly sources is in academic journals or books published by academic presses.

Tutorial: How to Search Using the URSUS Catalog

Recommended Databases

To find scholarly articles use library databases.  Some recommended databases for this course are listed below.

Also, here is a general tutorial on database searching.

And another searching tool: