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What is Believe it or Not?
"Is it reasonable to believe..." kickstarts the question for the Critical Thinking & Communication essay.
Your faculty librarian can help you navigate to academic, evidence-based articles on your given essay topic. This will assist in finding ideas to build your argument diagram and base your essay arguments on reliable and relevant research.
Book a 45-minute appointment with your faculty librarian - on campus or online.
Book a workshop in Week 11 - Wednesday 27th March!
In this session you will:
- Navigate to and find quality information using Bond Library and selected academic databases
- Find academic research to provide evidence for your arguments
- Use advanced search techniques in academic databases
- Evaluate information using the Currency, Relevancy, Authority, Purpose (CRAP) methods
- Understand why acknowledging information (citing, referencing) to prevent plagiarism is so important
This activity goes towards your Beyond Bond - one of four subjects in the Core Curriculum. After the session please complete the Quizlet and submit to the Beyond Bond team to review.
The academic databases that you have access to as a Bond student.
- Bond University Library Search This link opens in a new window
- Ebsco Databases This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database specialising in academic journals, magazines and newspapers, many with full text and images.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
If you use this Bond ezproxied link instead of the standard URL, you will be able to see holdings information from Bond Library.
- ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database with over 9,000 titles in full-text. Covers many subject areas including business and economic, health and medical, criminology, psychology, military, news and world affairs, technology.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals and online books. PubMed includes links to many sites including full text articles.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowJournals published by Elsevier covering many subject areas including business, psychology, information technology, and medicine. Subscription access is available to full-text articles from January 1995 to date.Elsevier no longer offer transactional logins for access to pre 1995 content as of 1 January 2019.