In addition to academic articles, you may also need to find other academic sources for your assignments, projects, coursework, or research.
These information sources may include:
While these resources don't present original research like you'll find in academic articles, they do share different kinds of valuable information that you can use for your assignments -- including historical, factual, and contextual information about a topic or idea.
Reference resources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks, can provide valuable information about education-related topics. These resources are most useful when you need to find historical or contextual information about a topic, define terms or ideas, or understand how research is designed / conducted on a specific concept over time.
OU Libraries have many reference resources that are relevant to education-related topics -- you can use Library OneSearch to discover what's available online and in print. These resources, though, have perhaps the widest applicability across educational topics:
While we can find and encounter streaming video in many places on the internet, the Libraries subscribe to a resource that is focused on academic video only -- so, these videos are more appropriate for use in your assignments and classes:
This is a multidisciplinary collection of streaming videos that span a wide range of subject areas such as anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
