LibGuides: COM 101: Oral Communication (Belk, Powell)

Tools to Help You Evaluate Information & Guide to Creating an Annotated Bibliography

You are doing a speech informing the audience on the safety of vaccines--Are these sources credible?

The Anti-vaccination Movement: A Regression in Modern Medicine

Vaccine Controversies: Should Parents Be Required to Vaccinate Their Children?

Speech 1 (Powell): Explain a Complex Process Related to Your Major

UNLV Libraries Quick Search

Academic Search Premier
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Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.

Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
Business Source Elite
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Scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business along with company profiles and SWOT analyses.

The database also includes company profiles of the world’s 10,000 largest companies providing SWOT analysis for many companies.
ABI/INFORM Collection
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1923-
Articles and reports in advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers and information on 25 million companies.

Update frequency: Updated weekly
Scope: International
Languages: English
Primarily a database for retrieving journal articles but allows for searching by company in the advanced search section. The ABI/INFORM Complete database offers searchable full text of more than 6,800 of the leading business and management journals in North America and the world. Coverage is international and includes advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also compiles information on 25 million companies!

Speech 1: Explain the Nature of a Social Problem

Check out the library Quick Search. Search for books, articles, and more all from one search box!

http://library.unlv.edu/

When to Use Quick Search:

you are first starting your research
to get ideas or background info you have had difficulty finding sources in other databases you need
an alternative to Google - easy searching but with more credible/reliable results

On the right sidebar, you can "Refine My Results" a number of different ways--including by publication date

**Remember, since you are supposed to look for recent publications (such as 2015 through present), you can narrow your search easily from "Limit by Date" in the "Limit My Results" section.

UNLV Libraries Research Databases for Social Issues/Problems

Academic Search Premier
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Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.

Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.

CQ Researcher
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1923-
In depth research on controversial topics ranging from social issues to environment, health, education, science, and technology issues.

Balanced information on all sides of an issue, including comments from experts in the field, numerous charts and graphs, a pro-con feature, a chronology, a lengthy bibliography for additional research, and a list of contacts are included in each report.
US Newsstream
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1980s-
Searchable current and recent articles from newspapers, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Newspaper Source Plus
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Regional newspapers and broadcast television transcripts.

Newspaper Source provides full text coverage for 40 national and international newspapers including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. Selected full text is offered from more than 330 regional newspapers including The Buffalo News, Orange County Register, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Full text transcripts are available from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio, and more.
Las Vegas Review Journal (NewsBank)
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1996-
Full text of articles, not including images. Use microfilm to get photos or advertisements.

Finding Data & Statistics & Government Information

Need statistics to support your argument? An easy way to find official statistics on Google is to add site:.gov to your search. For example:
Search "teen pregancy statistics" site:.gov

Then you will be directed to official government sources, such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC)

UNLV Libraries Data & Statistics Portal

Finding Government Information Tutorial

Persuasive (Problem/Solution or Problem/Cause/Solution)

Academic Search Premier
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Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.

Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
CQ Researcher
- This link opens in a new window
1923-
In depth research on controversial topics ranging from social issues to environment, health, education, science, and technology issues.

Balanced information on all sides of an issue, including comments from experts in the field, numerous charts and graphs, a pro-con feature, a chronology, a lengthy bibliography for additional research, and a list of contacts are included in each report.
Newspaper Source Plus
- This link opens in a new window
Regional newspapers and broadcast television transcripts.

Newspaper Source provides full text coverage for 40 national and international newspapers including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. Selected full text is offered from more than 330 regional newspapers including The Buffalo News, Orange County Register, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Full text transcripts are available from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio, and more.
US Newsstream
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1980s-
Searchable current and recent articles from newspapers, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Las Vegas Review Journal (NewsBank)
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1996-
Full text of articles, not including images. Use microfilm to get photos or advertisements.

Charity Resources

Begin your charity/nonprofit research by investigating the organization's website. You will most likely learn about their mission, their key players, annual reports, events, fundraising efforts, and more

You may also want to type in the name of the charity in UNLV Libraries "Quick Search" button to find a vairety of sources from books, magazine & journal articles.

Below are some UNLV Library Databases and reliable charity-related websites to help you with researching the organizations.

Academic Search Premier
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Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.

Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
Business Source Elite
- This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business along with company profiles and SWOT analyses.

The database also includes company profiles of the world’s 10,000 largest companies providing SWOT analysis for many companies.
Nexis Uni
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Searchable published news, legal, medical and business information.

The news section delivers the full text of international, national and regional newspapers along with wire services, broadcast transcripts, magazines, and non-English language sources. The legal section contains U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews and international legal information. This includes Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789. The medical section supplies information from news and medical journals, and provides abstracts to medical news from Medline. The business section includes business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
US Newsstream
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1980s-
Searchable current and recent articles from newspapers, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Philanthropy Magazine
Published by the Philanthropy Roundtable, an association of over 600 donors, foundations and charitable representatives, this magazine is published 6 times a year. It contains articles, book reviews and other features
Charity Navigator
Intended to help you evaluate charities
Foundation Center
Information about charities and their funding; use the "990 Finder" to view income tax statements.
GuideStar
Information about charities and nonprofits, including mission, programs, leaders, goals, accomplishments, and needs.
Razoo.com
A search engine for finding just charities and nonprofits.

Associations Unlimited
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Limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Directory of information about organizations all over the world.

With a scope that covers everything from a local Chamber of Commerce to the American Medical Association, and beyond, Associaitons Unlimited contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,600 major U.S. national associations, it provides images of association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms.

The Largest U.S. Charities For 2017
Chronicle of Philanthropy Data
Chronicle of Philanthropy
News & articles about charities & philanthropy.

Scavenger Hunt Exercise

Scavenger Hunt Exercise

Using Google Scholar

Google Scholar
Searches scholarly journal articles. Set preferences to UNLV for full text access!

Google Scholar searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports from many academic and technical fields. It is freely available to anyone searching the Internet; however, many of the links that lead to full text resources are not. On your first visit, go to Google Scholar Preferences and use the Library Links box to set UNLV as your source for no-fee access to many full text articles. For answers to questions about Google Scholar, check out the FAQ.