Below are database we suggest you use to start your research. Click on the A-Z Databases link to see all the database you have access to as a Heartland Student.
Covers a wide range of subject areas offering thousands of international journals to provide global context to research as well as videos to support and enhance the research experience. Largest database from EBSCO.
Academic database containing full-text articles, scholarly journals, images, and primary sources.
International, U.S. and local newspaper articles, including The Pantagraph.
Current and archived newspapers articles, newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, government documents and other publications.
Full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers and newswires and offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Full-text database that contains harvested news from the Associated Press.
Primary research articles are those that relay the results of scientific study directly from the people who performed the study. Articles that convey this kind of information, most of the time, have a specific kind of structure designed to convey scientific information clearly. This structure can also help you identify when an article is a primary research article, as well as help you read them more easily.
Most library databases contain scholarly research articles (which, in some contexts, are primary sources) on various topics. This site will help you identify whether an article is a scholarly article or not.