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Honors

This guide is designed for students in the Honors Program at Estrella Mountain Community College. You will find resources and tools to help with your Honors Projects and research papers. Please contact the library if you need any assistance.

Find Articles

Through the library, you have access to many article databases. Articles will be important for locating scholarly information for your honors projects. All the library databases can viewed here.

The library databases listed below contain both popular and scholarly articles and are a good starting place for your research. To view the difference between these types of articles, view the chart about the Differences Between Magazines, Newspapers and Journals.

 

EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost 

  • Contains full-text articles on a variety of subjects and disciplines
  • Capable of searching general and subject specific databases

Search Tip #1: On the "Choose Databases by Subject" page select the databases you want to search based on your research topic. At the very least, select the General databases (these are the largest ones). Depending on your topic you may also want to select additional databases. e.g. Computer Science/Engineering databases or the Psychology/Sociology databases.

Search Tip #2: On the beginning search page (where the search box appears), always select the "Full Text" box and if you want to view only Scholarly articles, also select the "Peer Reviewed" box.

You may need to login with your MEID and Password in order to access these resources off - campus

Opposing Viewpoints

Opposing Viewpoints 

  • Articles on current and controversial issues sourced from academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more

  • Topic pages range from Artificial Intelligence and Social Media to Green Building and Space Exploration

You may need to login with your MEID and Password in order to access these resources off - campus

One Search

One Search 

  • Utilize this feature at the top of the library homepage to search several library databases at the same time

Search Tip #1: Can be searched by Keyword, Title or Author

Search Tip #2: Utilize the filters in the column on the left side of the page to narrow down results

You may need to login with your MEID and Password in order to access these resources off-campus