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There are several perspectives worth taking seriously as part of your research:

Type of authority	Examples	Where to find them
Shapers of public opinion	Media figures, celebrities, politicians	Political speeches, TED Talks, opinion pieces in news outlets (USNewsStream is a good place to start).
Stakeholders directly involved	Eyewitnesses, people in a related industry, people affected by the issue or question	"Serious" social media accounts, interviews in news coverage, industry websites.
Expert research specialists	Social researchers, health researchers, historians, "serious" critics	Books and journal articles in QuickSearch

Credo General Reference
Dictionaries, specialized encyclopedias, quotations, thesauri, and bilingual dictionaries.

Academic Search Premier
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.
Access World News: Research Collection
Newspaper articles from 7,400 + sources, including 50 Nevada titles.
Local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video.
US Newsstream
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.

QuickSearch
Comprehensive search tool. Use the "Format" limiters to narrow to "Books" or "Book Chapters."