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Types of Resources

This guide is designed to help students discover scholarly resources across a variety of formats.

Types of Resources

Your course assignments or research at Channel Islands may require you to find and utilize a particular type of resource:

  • peer-reviewed articles
  • ebooks you can quickly access
  • a data set
  • a specific journal or newspaper
  • a streaming film

This guide is designed to help you quickly find and navigate these different types of resources via the library catalog, OneSearch, and in various types of databases.  The pages listed on the left side menu include search boxes (widgets) for specific resource types, lists of relevant library and open access databases, search tips, and more. 

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