Speech 1 - Haley - Speech Research Guide - Research Guides at Pasadena City College

Suggested Library Databases for Your Speech Assignments

INFORMATIVE SPEECH

Your topic should be educational for your audience.

Try Gale eBooks for topic overviews, or the Biography database for information about notable people.

Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Large collection of reference books providing background information on a variety of subjects. PCC offers a brief video with instructions for using this database.
Biography (Gale in Context)
Search for biographies based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, or other keywords.

The following article databases can help you find newspaper, magazine, and scholarly research articles on your topic.
You can also use the Narrow by Subject feature on the List of All Databases to locate other specialized databases for your topic.

EBSCOhost (Combined)
A combined search of a wide variety of EBSCOhost databases containing thousands of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering all disciplines. Includes scholarly journal articles. Includes Academic Search Premier, America: History and Life, science and medicine/health databases, psychology databases, and many more. PCC offers a brief video with instructions for using this database, and more advanced ways to improve your search,
ProQuest (combined)
A combined search of a wide variety of ProQuest databases offering full text access to articles from academic journals, newspapers, magazines and other periodicals covering a variety of subject areas. Includes ProQuest Research Library, GenderWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, and many more databases.
US Major Dailies (ProQuest)
Newspaper articles from the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post. PCC offers a brief video with instructions for using this database.

PERSUASIVE SPEECH

These databases can help you select and narrow a topic, and to find opinion articles to support your argument.

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context)
Articles about social issues. Includes opinion articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, and full-text periodical articles from magazines and newspapers. PCC offers a brief video with instructions for using this database.
SIRS Knowledge Source (ProQuest)
SIRS includes two modules: Issues Researcher and Government Reporter. Issues Researcher covers the leading issues most studied and debated by students, and features newspaper and magazine articles. Government Reporter includes country reports, publications from federal agencies, historic documents, national archives documents and agency press releases.
CQ Researcher
Articles covering controversial issues with summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. (coverage since 1991)