Dig Deep into an Issue
Find It @ USC LibrariesCan lead you to articles, books, dissertations and more from a wide variety of subjects. You can filter to see sources "Available online." Use the Resource Type filter (books are good for in-depth discussion of an issue or leader; reference entries could provide background).
Need a little inspiration? Browse these results.Advanced Search:
activists OR activism OR leader*
AND "social justice" OR discrimination OR equity OR equality
More about a Leader
Now that you have a name, search again and maybe in some new places.
Find It @ USC LibrariesStart by searching the person's name to see a range of resources. Depending on the name, it might be helpful to put quotes around it to search as a phrase. You can always add other terms later.
NewspapersConsider where and when your person was active to select which newspaper databases to use and then search for articles reporting on your person or issue/event from the time period.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowSee what a historian has written about the issue/event or the selected leader.
Research Article
The challenge in finding one research article related to courageous leadership, activism, or social justice will be deciding which one to pick! The possibilities are almost overwhelming. Are there aspects of any of these concepts that are compelling to you? Try adding terms into your search to narrow your results.
Being published in a peer-reviewed journal doesn't necessarily mean it is a research article, but look and see if where you are searching has that filter.
You can also add words into your search that you'd expect to read in the abstract of a research article. Examples include:
findings, investigat*, participant*, population, study, "case study," survey, questionnaire, interview*, qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods
Remember
* is a wildcard that finds different endings investigat* finds investigation, investigating, investigator
OR between words on the same line/box
AND between lines/boxes
" " surround words in quotation marks searches them as a phrase
Education DatabasesYour article doesn't have to come from education, but Education Source and ERIC are the two largest databases for the field.
