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Research Starting Points

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Academic Search Premier

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Provides selected full text, scholarly, and peer reviewed articles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Google Scholar

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Google Scholar searches the academic, scholarly Web for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. Searching Google Scholar from the Portland State University Library will identify full text articles available from PSU Library resources as well as open access articles from other universities and colleges.

Web of Science

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Maintains citation searching for high impact research journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences and includes emerging sources citation indexing from 2005.

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ASM Handbooks Online

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Provides access to the complete collection of ASM Handbooks as well as the Engineered Materials Handbook Desk Edition and the Metals Handbook Desk Edition.

Federal Register

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Is the daily journal of United States government.

SAGE Business Cases

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This collection is comprised of digital business cases covering interdisciplinary cases on subjects such as entrepreneurship, accounting, healthcare management, leadership, and social enterprise from over 120 countries. Faculty please contact Kerry Wu for access to the teaching notes.

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