Abortion  Tags: abortion ugl_subject_guide ugl  

Articles are a valuable resource in any research paper or project. Articles (as opposed to books) generally possess the following characteristics:

• Shorter length
• Currency of information
• Focus on a specific aspect of a topic 

Abortion 
Activism
Ban
Clinic
Church
Controversy
Debate
Ethics
Feminism
Government
Incest
Law
Methods
Morals
Parental Consent
Politics
Policy
Rape
Regulation/s
Religion
Reproductive rights

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Check the subject headings/descriptors for individual articles in your searches and repeat your search using these terms. Please note, subject headings are not consistent across databases.

General Interest Databases (cover a variety of subjects/topics)

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Host) - Includes both scholarly and popular sources, updated daily.
• Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) - Includes both scholarly and popular sources, updated daily.

Discipline Specific Databases (focus on a specific discipline or collection of related disciplines)

• Contemporary Women's Issues - Covers publications on womens' issues including political science, psychology, and reproductive rights, as well as contemporary cultural studies. Be aware that not all citations will offer the full-text of articles.
• Health Source (EBSCO) - Highlights articles on consumer health information.
• MEDLINEplus(National Library of Medicine) - Offers consumer information about health-related topics.
• Sociological Abstracts - Identifies articles, conference papers, books and dissertations in sociology and related fields.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts - Provides articles on political science, international relations, law, public administration/policy and political economy.