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APA Style Citation Information

APA Formatting - Purdue OWL
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides resources on in-text citation and bibliographies, as well as sample papers and slide presentations.
APA Style Blog
The official companion to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition. It’s run by a group of experts who work with APA Style every day. It publishes weekly posts about writing, publishing, and APA Style.

"You’ll discover that different academic disciplines have different rules and protocols concerning when and how to cite sources, a practice known as “citation.” For example, some disciplines use footnotes, whereas others use parenthetical in-text citations; some require complete bibliographic information on all works consulted, whereas others require only a list of “Works Cited.”"

Lateral Reading

Lateral Reading is a strategy used by professional fact checkers to determine the reliability of online sources.

Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information
An entertaining, 10-eposode YouTube playlist from MediaWise that includes videos on Lateral Reading (#3), using Wikipedia (#5), and social media (#10).

InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Free to all Drake faculty, staff, and students. If there are books, book chapters, or articles that we don't have access to at Cowles, we can almost always get access to these items via another library. Order your items through Interlibrary Loan.
WorldCat.org
Search libraries across the country. The "Check for Full Text @ Drake" link will take you to an InterLibrary Loan request form.

A Fair(y) Use Tale: A Lesson on Copyright

SuperSearch

Find Journals

This form allows you to browse the tables of contents of scholarly journals and choose full text articles. To search for articles across multiple journal titles, use SuperSearch.

Online Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers

Scholarly Journals

Academic Search Ultimate
Scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 10,000 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals.
JSTOR
More than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources
Periodicals Archive Online
Archive of backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, spanning more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
Project Muse
Full-text of scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University and other university presses.

Magazines

Harper's Digital Archives
Full-text articles from this general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture and the arts. Coverage: 1850-Present
Life Magazine Archive
Archive of Life Magazine, covering 1936-2000.
Time Magazine Archive
Archive of Time Magazine, covering 1923-2000.
Women's Magazine Archive
Archive of consumer magazines aimed at a female readership, including Better Homes & Gardens, Chatelaine, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, and Redbook.