How to use this guide
Locate the page denoted by your FYRS professor's name. The home page provides resources for all FYRS sections while course pages provide featured resources that relate to your specific course content.
Library catalog: find books, articles, videos
Scholarly article search
Need more options? Library Databases A-Z
Need a specific journal? Journals A-Z
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)--Transy Library
If we do not have an item, we may be able to borrow it from another library.
Scholarly vs Popular Periodicals
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Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
Use this interactive page from NC State Libraries to see the different sections of a scholarly article defined.
Gather Background Text
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Use this box to search hundreds of full-text reference titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
News Resources
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New York Times Academic Pass
To get full access to the nytimes.com website create an account at the site linked above using your Transy.edu email address. More information on signing up is available at http://youtu.be/NROcngiF_uY. The Archive is available at New York Times Archive through Proquest. -
WSJ.com (The Wall Street Journal)Get full access to the business newspaper of record, The Wall Street Journal, website using your Transy.edu email address. Create your personal account at http://wsj.com/transy, then go to your email to verify.
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AllSides
Multi-partisan news site dedicated to evaluating news via crowd-sourced media bias ratings. See topics and stories reported across a variety of news outlets.
Evaluating Sources & Developing Research Questions/Topics
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