Research Guides: Adult and Professional Studies (SOAPS): Finding Articles for SOAPS Programs

Research Coach

Make a research coach appointment with a librarian today and get help framing research questions, finding or accessing resources, and citation help. Students can meet with a librarian face-to-face in Jackson or through Microsoft Teams video conferencing.

Concentrations

The School of Adult and Professional Studies at Union has three different programs of study: Associate Degree Program (APS), Bachelors in Christian Leadership (BSCL), and Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership (BSOL). Select your program from the tab on the left to find databases geared toward your program and concentration. The databases below are general databases that cover a broad range of disciplines and will help in all programs/concentrations.

General Databases

Academic Onefile
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Academic OneFile includes peer-reviewed and full text articles from journals and reference sources in the subjects of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature, as well as the New York Times.
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, indexes and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications. It covers a range of disciplines such as science, engineering, psychology, religion, and many others.
SAGE Journals
Online access to 550+ journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, science, technology, and medicine disciplines.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, nearly 31 million full-text articles, and more than 677,000 television and radio news transcripts.

Request Interlibrary Loans

Union University is able to borrow items from other libraries when books or journal articles needed by our faculty, staff and students are unavailable at Union.

Please use one of the links below to submit a request for an interlibrary loan.

Request Books
To request Books that we don't have use the above link. It is good to use WorldCat to search for books in other libraries.
Request Article
Use the above link to request articles that you are not able to locate in our databases or catalog.

APA Publication Manual

The APA citation style is used mainly in the social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, nursing, communications, education, business, engineering, and other fields. Check with your professor to see which edition you should use as both editions are being used.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2020
ISBN: 9781433832161
Publication Date: 2019-10-01

Turabian

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian
Call Number: Ready Reference LB2369 .T8 2007
ISBN: 9780226494425
Publication Date: 2018-04-16
The new edition of A Manual for Writers filters decades of expertise into modern standards. This edition goes further to build information literacy, recognizing that most students will be doing their work largely or entirely online and on screens.