Tutorials
Below you will find tutorials related to:
- Navigating our resources using the Murphy Library main page
- Keyword searching using a multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Ultimate
- Narrowing your keyword search in Academic Search Ultimate
- Examining your topic looking at pro/con arguments in our issue-oriented databases
- Searching all of our UW System resources using our main page search box
- Exploring your topic using local resources such as the La Crosse Tribune in Newspaper Source Plus
Murphy Library main page overview
Pro/Con database searching
- Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together pro and con viewpoint articles from the Greenhaven Press book series, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, hundreds of primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more. In addition, it has thousands of links to reviewed and subject-indexed websites and podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs. Access to this resource is made possible by UWL Student Differential Tuition. - CQ Researcher (CQ Press) This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles on the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into two sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.
Keyword searching in Academic Search Ultimate
- Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive database containing full-text academic journals, magazines and periodicals plus reports, books and videos covering virtually every discipline. Includes thousands of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America.
Searching the UW System via our search box
Narrowing your search in Academic Search Ultimate
Searching local resources
- Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window500+ U.S. newspapers including USA Today, The Washington Post, Star Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison), Capital Times (Madison), Post-Bulletin (Rochester); 600+ international newspapers; news transcripts from ABC News (American), CBC (Canadian), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS; Real-Time News from AP, CNN, PR Newswire, UPI
