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Personal Project: Research

A guide to research skills for the Personal Project.

Library Resources

NoodleTools

JSTOR

DBpia

Gale in Context: Middle School

Britannica School

JSTOR How-To

JSTOR Guides

Use these guides as starting points for your research on JSTOR!

JSTOR

 

New to JSTOR search? This short tutorial gives you an overview of how to get started with basic search, advanced search and image search.

This 7-minute video will show you how to search on JSTOR quickly and easily. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:27 Access Methods 1:33 Searching 2:55 Refining Results 4:38 Subject Categories 5:34 Citing, saving, downloading 6:10 Reading online You will learn how to begin with a broad idea and refine that search using the sidebar on the search results page

JSTOR Workspace

Other Research Help

Research Tools for the Extended Essay

Literature Review

Wolfram Alpha search engine

Compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology

Google Scholar

Best Online Sources for Academic Research

PubMed Central

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)


Science.gov

Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.


10 Best Online Websites and Resources for Academic Research

Looking for reliable academic sources online can be a challenge. These online resources will help you find credible sources for your academic research.