Welcome to the Library Guide for Social Justice 110. This guide is designed to support your research process. In this guide, you'll find:
Use the tabs to navigate through the boxes and pages of the guide. If you have any questions, schedule an appointment with a librarian.
Where and how to search for information depends on what kind of information you need, and for what purpose you need it.
If you are looking for scholarly information, it's a good idea to use scholarly databases through Penrose Library, the Penrose Library catalog Sherlock, or to start with an internet tool like Google Scholar (but you may need to use Sherlock to help you access information you find with Google Scholar).
If you are looking for contextual or background information related to local issues or organizations, local newspapers or websites are a good place to start (see information in the Local sources page). You might look in reference works for general background information; Wikipedia can also be a helpful starting point, especially when it gives you references to reliable sources. If you are trying to find a specific organization or information fro a specific kind of organization, Google advanced search makes it easier to find, for example, reports from an organization with a .org domain extension.
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