COMM 210: Introduction to Public Speaking

Full-text online access to a growing collection of reference books. Search titles individually or search multiple titles simultaneously.

Great place to start your research! Search across hundreds of reference titles and link out to other library databases.

Excellent starting place for gathering insight and exploring the pros and cons of issues in the news.

Brings together news, global viewpoints, reference, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics and more on a variety of topics in all major disciplines.

Covers today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana.

Multi-discIplinary database covering scholarly journals, magazines, and more. BE SURE TO SELECT PEER REVIEWED UNDER LIMIT YOUR SEARCH FOR PEER REVIEWED OR SCHOLARLY JOURNALS.

For Peer Reviewed Articles, Select it under the Limit to Features.

Register for an Academic Pass with your RWU email address.
Once registered go to https://nytimes.com and login.

Excellent starting place for gathering insight and exploring the pros and cons of issues in the news.

Digital educational video in humanities, political science, engineering, architecture, psychology and more. Over 6000 titles.

Kanopy is a global streaming video service providing access to over 26,000 films across all disciplines. Kanopy's collection includes award-winning films from The Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, Media Education Foundation, Collective Eye Films, New Day Films, Documentary Educational Resources, California Newsreel and many more.

Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, Roper iPoll is the largest collection of public opinion poll data with results from 1935 to the present. Roper iPoll contains nearly 800,000 questions and over 23,000 datasets from both U.S. and international polling firms. Surveys cover any number of topics including, social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, science, the environment, and much more. When available, results charts, demographic crosstabs and full datasets are provided for immediate download.

Authoritative resource of United States statistical information.

Create maps and generate reports (i.e., tables) based on demographic data from the United States Census and related surveys (1790 to present).
Learn more about using Social Explorer.