Guides: FYSE 1580 Imagining a Better Tomorrow: Home

The following are good places to look for scholarly sources on film and media topics.

Library Search
Middlebury Library's search engine. It searches nearly everything we own or have access to, including books, articles, films, reference materials, primary sources and more. (go/LibrarySearch/)

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Journal, newspaper, and magazine articles on topics from all major subject areas. Complements LibrarySearch.
JSTOR All Collections This link opens in a new window
Middlebury's access includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR, spanning more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across four collections (Global Plants, 19th-century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom in southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa). Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off campus).

Google Scholar
A great place to find academic articles across disciplines. You may hit paywalls using Google Scholar off campus.

The following are good places to look for data on your communities and information on civic issues.

County Health Rankings
A treasure trove of community data. Includes demographic, economic, social, environmental as well as health data. Compare any US county to the national average or to each other.
US Census
Official data on US people places and economy.

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. Premium edition features over 15,000 interactive data maps and reports from the U.S. census and other sources.

Issue Lab
Search research reports, whitepapers, evaluations, case studies, issue briefs, and more published and/or funded by social sector organizations.

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