LSC-Tomball: Library Research Guides: Paralegal Studies: Find Articles

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Databases - to search to find articles on your topic

Legal Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes full text for nearly 250 scholarly law journals.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Includes materials from over 650 reference books on a variety of topics in higher education, including art, business, history, languages, literature, science, criminal justice, and political science.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
US Major Dailies provides access to The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
Race Relations Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Locate peer-reviewed research in ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline, as listed. No full text, but search for the publication title in the Full Text Finder off the main Databases page.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture and Law This link opens in a new window
Contains an extensive collection of essential legal materials (court cases, trials, statutes, etc.) on along with books, sermons, slave narratives, speeches, periodicals, pamphlets, poems & songs, and much more from the 18th-20th centuries.

Citation Style Links

You may need to use a variety of citation styles for your classes outside of the legal ones you take as a paralegal student.

An excellent citation resource is available at the LSC Tomball Citation Resources Libguide

There are numerous links to three other common citation styles that may be required in your classes. However, the ones below are excellent for checking your citations/references list/bibliographies.

APA Style

MLA Style

Chicago/Turabian Style

Citation Machine - for APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian styles. Just make sure you double check your results with a reputable style guide such as Purdue Owl.