Quick Search searches for books and e-books, journal articles, videos, newspaper articles and more in UNLV's databases and collections.
Good for: Selecting from a list of EBSCO databases to use for researching various subjects Contains: Database descriptions and links
Good for: Researching sociology and related disciplines.
Contains: Index to literature.
Dates covered: 1895-present.
Good for: Conducting academic research on all subjects.
Contains: Journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
Good for: Finding information on public policy, social policy, and the social sciences.
Contains: Index to literature.
Dates covered: 1972-present.
Good for: Finding professional journal articles about social work
Contains: Journal articles.
Dates covered: 1977-present.
Good for: Finding abstracts of research in social work, human services, social policy, and community development.
Contains: Abstracts of published scholarship.
Dates covered: 1979-present.
Good for: Controversial topics in social issues, environment, health, education, science, and technology.
Contains: Reports with information about all sides of an issue, including comments from experts in the field, charts and graphs, a pro-con feature, a chronology, a bibliography for additional research, and a list of advocacy organizations.
Dates covered: 1923-present.
Good for: Searching the text of articles published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Contains: Article text (no images).
Dates covered: 1996-present.
Good for: Finding regional news articles and broadcast television transcripts.
Contains: Regional newspapers and transcripts.
Good for: Researching education topics.
Contains: Journal articles.
Dates covered: 1996-present.
Good for: Educators seeking resources related to professional development topics.
Contains: Education journals and reports.
If you want to use Google Scholar as one of your search tools, this linked document describes how to update the Google Scholar settings to tie it to the subscriptions you have access to through UNLV and other libraries.
Google is an easy way to find official government information. After you type in your keywords, add site:gov to the search.
For example:
food stamp statistics site:.gov
Then, you will limit your search to .gov sites (mostly federal, but also some state & local resources). You may also want to limit your .gov search to the last 3 to 5 years for the most current information.