Library Home Page -- www.wou.edu/library

The Purdue Owl [online writing lab] provides a detailed research guide for citing in APA format

EasyBib is an automatic citation & bibliography composer for APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian styles. 

EasyBib is also available from the library home page under My Accounts.

If you are not using a citation composer yet, choose EasyBib rather than NoodleBib, as we are phasing that one out. 

This lesson on conducting advanced research will cover:

+ The difference between a search engine and a library database

+ What types of articles are available in a library database

+ How to find subject specific library databases at Western Oregon
   University

+ How to search a library databases: Advanced techniques

+ Getting the Article: Advanced Techniques

+ Example:  Advanced Research using Communication and Mass
   Media Complete

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides articles published in more than 600 journals covering communication and mass media studies. Includes full-text for more than 300 of these journals.

PsycINFO
Provides 2 million scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.