This guide will help you complete the "Voting Identification" assignment, by showing how to use the Library databases and resources. Use Nexis Uni to locate news, business and legal sources on the topic. Opposing Viewpoints and Facts on File: Issues and Controversies will provide different perspectives on the same topic. Use the Academic Search Complete database to locate full text peer reviewed articles on the topic.
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Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Contains over 500 topics. Each topic essay provides background information, images, a complete bibliography, contact information, and extensive links to related articles. To view the complete list of topics, click "Issues & Controversies" and then the issues will be listed by subject.
Academic Search Complete includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports and conference proceedings. The database features some PDF content going back as far as 1867, with the majority of full text titles in searchable PDF format.
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