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Throughout your college career, you will need to do research. Some programs require more research than others, but everyone gets the opportunity eventually. We can help!  We have a number of resources available to ease your research needs, and our knowledgeable staff is on-hand to guide you to the sources to best suit you.

Images are assigned to each databases indicating login requirements and other resource features:

• this image indicates a subscription database requiring your IU East username and password.
• this image indicates a freely available, selected website.
•  this image indicates an available Tutorial for the database. Click the T-icon to access the Tutorial.
• this image indicates reference and basic information resources: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.
• this image indicates databases that include peer-reviewed, scholarly articles.
• this image indicates databases that include controversial, issue based articles.
• this image indicates an available Video for the database and resources that include streaming and in-library videos. Click the V-icon to access the Tutorial.
• this image indicates databases accessible to Ivy Tech students.

We may not have some of the articles you found at our campus. Fortunately, you can use ILLIAD, our Inter-Library Loan service to obtain these articles from other campuses.

If you're having trouble accessing any of the databases, please let us know.
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CONCEPT of REFEREED/PEER REVEIW: 
Experts in a field (singly or several people) review an author's work by its written description for methods, plausibility, completeness, ethics, etc. to "weed-out" poorly documented/conceived research, implausible research, poorly constructed research, dishonest research,etc. The hard sciences may also apply a more stringent idea of peer-reviewed by including the idea of blind peer-review. This kind of peer review excludes author and other personal information from the review process. In this case the "editor" as a peer-reviewer is removed from the process.

Another option to find databases and articles is by reviewing subject resources. Please use the linked-list below:

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Scholary articles are published in journals. Popular articles are published in magazines.  Scholarly articles are sometimes called Peer-reviewed or Refereed. These articles generally include: a research statement/question, brief literature review, methods, discussion, tests/studies, questions, outcomes, conclusions and references.  A popular article is written in general language that is well understood by most readers.  A scholarly article is written for individuals familiar with the subject.

Our staff experts can help direct you to the answers you seek. If you've got a question you just can't find the answer to, or simply don't know where to begin, let us help you.

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