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ENGL 057 - Critical Connections in Reading and Writing - Allen Gleed

This guide provides research support for Professor Allen Gleed's ENGL 057 Research Essay assignment.

General Interest Databases

EBSCOhost

Academic Search Complete

Articles from scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers covering every area of academic study and news.

ProQuest Central

ProQuest Central

Searches across all ProQuest databases. Articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers covering every subject area and news topics.

Newsbank

NewsBank America's Newspapers

Articles from Pennsylvania and national newspapers.

eBooks Databases

EBSCOhost eBooks

eBooks on EBSCOhost

eBook collection covering a wide range of subjects.

OverDrive

OverDrive

Popular fiction, nonfiction, and audios titles to borrow for use on your electronic device. Check out for two weeks.

Streaming Videos

Kanopy

Kanopy

On-demand streaming of classic cinema, indie films, and top documentaries. Films remain available for 72 hours.

Films On Demand

Films on Demand

Curriculum-focused, streaming video titles from producers such as Films for the Humanities and Sciences, A&E, History, ABCNews, BBC, NBC News, Biography, National Geographic and others.

Alexander Street Press

Academic Video Online (AVON)

Over 70,000 streaming video titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

Diverse & Inclusive Works

Finding resources that are written by diverse authors takes additional research. Many authors of scholarly works have a page that includes a picture or a short bio, but it may not include the information you are looking for. You can also use resources that specialize in publishing and promoting works from representative authors. 

Chronic Discrimination

The library's databases are not censored, meaning that an opinion piece an extremist wrote that was published in a newspaper can be found in the library databases. Therefore it is equally important to know how to identify works, authors, publications, or resources with a history of discriminatory and inaccurate science.