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PSY 490S/SOCIOL 490S: Keeping Culture in Mind: Why Use the Library?

Research guide for Kim Rogers' course, spring 2013.

Not everything is free

The library offers databases with thousands of magazines and scholarly journals in full-text that are not available on the web.

View a 1-minute tutorial on finding a database or browse databases by subject.

Not everything is scholarly or authoritative

Do you know when to use a scholarly journal or a popular journal in your research?

Take a look at Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazines and Anatomy of a Scholarly Article to see the differences.

Not everything is on the web


Browse and read books, magazines, encyclopedias, and other printed and audiovisual materials, including archival and special collections that are not available online.

Not everything is transparent

Get personal assistance from Duke University Library subject specialists.

You don't have to be in the library to use it

Use the online catalog to identify many of the resources that can be accessed from off-campus.  Take a virtual tour (>5 min) of Duke University's Perkins Library.