Research Resources - ENGL 111 - English Composition - McClain

Resources for researching topics from History Colorado's Lost Highways

Colorado Regional History Digital Collections

All of Colorado and the region

Western Colorado

Colorado Mesa University Digital Archives – History of Western Colorado and CMU
Mesa County Library Western Colorado History Research Guide
Mesa County Oral History Project
Northwest Colorado Oral Histories

Southwest Colorado

Eastern and Southeastern Colorado

Article Databases

The databases below include articles from scholarly journals and professional magazines. They may or may not have information on local/regional stories. They likely will include information on the larger issues. (For example, these databases may not contain information on the Denver Bonsai Club but would contain information on Japanese Internment Camps in the U.S. during WWII, Japanese culture within the camps, and the impacts of trauma from internment).

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Subjects: History, Literature, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics. Art.
Multidisciplinary index to peer-reviewed journal and magazine articles; some full-text; constructs bibliography in five different citation styles.
History Reference Source This link opens in a new window
Subject: History History-related books, periodicals, documents, videos, biographies, photos, and maps; some full-text from 1917-current.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Subject: Social Sciences, History, Business, Health, Law, Politics.Analysis of current social issues from different points of view. Often includes overviews of the history and controversies around a topic.
Greenfile This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Agriculture, Biological Sciences Covers the various aspects of human impact on the environment such as: global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more. Some full-text peer-reviewed articles from 1950-current.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Subject: Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Health Index (some full-text) of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in psychology, psychiatry, and psychological aspects of medicine, nursing, sociology, education, physiology, anthropology, and business; constructs bibliography in five different citation styles.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Subject: Social & Behavioral Sciences Peer-reviewed journal articles, books, conference papers, and other sources on sociology from 1895-current; some full-text; constructs bibliography in five different citation styles.

News sources can be an excellent source for investigating local stories

Local/Regional Newspapers

High Country News
Colorado Sun
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (ask the Reference desk for full text beyond the free article limit)
Daily Sentinel Index 1900-2005 (This is an index of older DS stories - no full text)
Glenwood Springs Post Independent
Denver Post archives

Local/regional newspapers for other areas in Colorado

National & international news (for a broader perspective):

U.S. Major Dailies (Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post)

Covers regional news, national newspapers, and international news sources

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Subjects: Business, Biological Sciences. Online access to variety of reference books from the Gale publishing family. Can search an individual title or all titles at once.
Oxford Reference Online
Subjects: Archaeology, Art, Architecture, History, Language, Linguistics, Health,
Music, Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Social Science. Full-text subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource. Note: accommodates only 1 user at any given time.