Research Request Form
Need Research Help?
A Steelman Librarian can help you locate resources.
Guidance from the librarian can be helpful in navigating online journals, ordering ILL, or locating Open Educational Resources outside Steelman.
This program is supposed to provide you with guidance on locating resources, but will not do all the work for you by providing an exact list of articles you should use for your research.
Graduate Research Request
Request a librarian to assist you with locating resources.
- Provide your thesis or problem statement, or scope of research.
- Fill out the rest of the form details.
- Within a week after you submit the form, you will receive an email with links and video instructions.
Dissertations
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a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses.
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American Doctoral Dissertations™ has been expanded to offer greater coverage of 20th Century research as well as access to full text. The enhanced database includes more than 153,000 theses and dissertations in total, including 70,000 new citations for theses and dissertations from 1902 to the present.
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Asbury Digital Commons with over 1000 Dissertations in Full Text.
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Doctoral research theses from the UK.
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National Library of Australia
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European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). Access to 106,000 doctoral theses.
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free, open access, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.
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This is an international database of citations for dissertations in musicology that contains over 12,000 records. Dissertations are from approximately 1950 to the present. (This is probably more appropriate for a public or music library.)
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Barnett College of Ministries & Theology DMin since 2019
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College of Education Dissertations since 2016
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1970 - Present
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This free database has features such as saved searches, alerts, and portfolios to organize documents.
- Regent Dissertations
Avoiding Plagiarism
- Quoting, Paraphrasing, & Summarizing
Gives 3 different ways to use the ideas of others in your assignments
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Paraphrasing/Plagiarism Tutorial from University of Maine, Farmington
Academic Integrity Policy
- Academic Policies from Graduate Catalog (Revised November 1, 2019)
Southeastern University is a Christ-centered institution of higher learning. The educational programs of Southeastern University are designed to foster successful academic achievement in order to equip students to discover and develop their divine design, to serve Christ and the world through Spirit-empowered life, learning, and leadership. We are committed to equipping the next generation of leaders so that they can go into the world as influential servants in their careers and their communities.
This catalog gives general information on the academic regulations and degree requirements for master’s and doctoral programs. In upgrading all areas of the university, Southeastern University reserves the right to change the rules regulating admission, instruction, graduation, and any other activity affecting the student body, including prospective students and currently enrolled students (Academic Policies, SEU Graduate Catalog, p. 5).
The link connects only to the recently approved and adopted Academic Policies chapter (Chapter 7) of the full Graduate Catalog. The policies in the revised Academic Policies chapter are the official policies for graduate students and replace the policies in the Graduate Catalog. Where language differs in the Graduate Catalog to the Academic Policies document, the linked Academic Policy should be followed.
Writing Literature Reviews
- How to write a literature review video
video from North Carolina State University
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Framework for Conducting and Writing a Synthetic Literature Review
- notes template for lit review
Use this template to guide you as you review the literature for your lit review.
Proper Citation
Proper Citation - Turabian
Lessons in Grammar for English Learners
Pronouns
- The use of Singular "They"
This article provides an explanation about the use of the singular they and gives alternatives to avoid the use of the singular they in scholarly writing.
Gerunds and Infinitives
- Using Gerunds and Infinitives
Explains what gerunds and infinitives are. Points out that gerunds and infinitives used as a subject in the sentence always takes the singular verb form.
Anthropomorphism
Improving Flow
Concise Writing
Using Others Content in Your Work
You are responsible for giving credit to any third-party copyrighted or previously published material (images, quotations, datasets, figures) you include in your work. The acknowledgment should be placed in your paper according to citation style. You will also need to determine whether the use of the material can be classified as “fair use." You can read more about Fair Use below.
Fair Use
Fair use can be found in 17 U.S.C. Section 107 (The Copyright Act).
Fair use allows certain uses of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. There are four factors/purposes to consider when determining fair use in your content. You must look at nall the factors, but not all the factors need to be considered fair use for the use to be fair.
- the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for non-profit educational purposes;
- the nature of the copyrighted work;
- the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
- the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
To help you determine Fair Use, use the resources below:
- Checklist to determine Fair Use by Columbia University Libraries
- Fair Use Analysis Tool by the University of Minnesota
License Needed
If the content is not covered by fair use or in the public domain, you will need to obtain license (permission) to use the content. In some cases, an existing license may cover your use. However, for others, you will need to get a new license from the copyright holder.
Follow the How to Steps provided by U.S. Copyright Office on obtaining copyright permission.