The published court opinion of the case is just one source for your paper. Your instructor will expect researchers to look beyond the court opinion to find additional books, articles, blog posts, or web sites that discuss the impact of this court case.
The BVU Library provides resources to help you identify and locate articles that help you answer these questions.
Searches can be the specific name of the court case, for example "island trees v. pico"
....or, because I've done enough "pre-research" to know that this case is about censoring materials in school libraries, I could search for books, ebooks or articles about that topic that may not specifically mention the court case.
Options to filter or narrow the search are available in the left column of the search results.
This option allows you to toggle between BVU Library available materials and anything else available through another library that we can obtain through interlibrary loan for you.
This section lets you select the format of the material you want. Print books can be sent to our off-campus students if requested. Most ebooks and articles will be available regardless of your location.
Narrowing your search results by publication year can be useful to help focus attention on the latest news.
Author, Subject, and Language may provide additional useful ways to narrow down search results.
Researchers who wish to conduct a more "targeted" search can search individual BVU databases.
To access our list of databases, click on "Find Articles" on the library web page, which leads to the A-Z Database List.
Databases of interest for this assignment include:
National Public Radio (NPR) Legal Affairs
RadioLab Presents: More Perfect a weekly podcast about the Supreme Court