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Upper School Research

General Research Databases

These databases are great places to find general information on your topic. These sources will not make arguments, rather they will give you a more or less objective view of your topic. 

These databases give you access to thousands of peer-reviewed academic journals, written and reviewed by experts in their fields. Many of these sources will be making arguments, so these are good sources to bring into your research to have a conversation with. 

Academic ebooks can be a mix of background and argument sources, it depends on how you use them. Just like with physical books, look at the table of contents or the index of an ebook to see if it is relevant to your research.