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DTC 206 - Summer 2019 (Prof. Ruth Gregory) - VR/AR legislation

Search Terms and Search Strategies - Your Search Toolkit

Contextual issues with terms, i.e. "equity"

Brainstorm terms

What Kind of Resources May Be of Use?

Information types

Scholarly (includes law reviews) publications

Opinion/Ideas (includes advocacy organizations, think tanks, and research institutes) publications

Trade/professional publications

Popular magazines

What Formats May Be of Use?

Newspapers

Government Publications

Executive/Executive agency
Judicial
Legislative
(Action/discussion by international organizations (UN, OECD, etc?) or foreign governments? State governments? Model legislation?)

Catalogs and Databases (A Jumping Off Point)

Brainstorm disciplinary lenses
Disciplinary subject library guides
Some to start with:
*Law
*Computer Science
*Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
*Psychology
Database lists
* Google Scholar
* Google
placehilder

Nexis Uni
cases, law reviews, business articles, newspaper articles and more.
How to use - see https://libguides.libraries.wsu.edu/nexisuni

Newspapers and Government Information

Newspapers Research Guide
Government Information Research Guide
Note: the govinfo search tool will locate executive, congressional, and judicial stuff.
For more in-depth congressional stuff, use Congress.gov (links in guide)

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