CJ/ANTH 322: Forensic Anthropology: Research Guide

You need five peer-reviewed sources for the researchable questions assignment. (If you need a refresher on what a peer-reviewed source is, check out this 3-minute video). These sources must be from criminal justice scholarly journals.

The best place to start searching the library is Primo--the main search form on the library homepage. The PDF below provides step-by-step instructions for researching using Primo to find articles and books, along with additional tips for searching and finding scholarly sources in general.

How to search using Primo (the WOU library search engine)

To begin searching in Primo, just go to the library homepage at https://library.wou.edu/ and enter your keywords in the main search box:

You can also find scholarly articles and books (mainly articles) by searching in one or more of the smaller, subject-specific databases that the library subscribes to, as described in this PDF:

Five steps to searching any database (ex. EBSCO's PsycInfo)

Linked below are some subject-specific additional databases you may want to use to conduct your research. Just like in Primo, search using your brainstormed keywords. Most of what is available in these databases will show up in your Primo searches, but since these databases are smaller and subject-specific you will get fewer results and therefore might find them easier to manage. Most of the results in these databases will be journal articles, rather than books.