NU Library: History Research: HIS 372

Current News

CountryWatch
The Country Wire provides daily news coverage for all countries and features up-to-date articles from regional news wire services across the globe. The Country Wire offers a rich tapestry of news coverage with varied cultural and political perspectives. In so doing, news readers are afforded a comparative framework for understanding the complexity of the global landscape. See also "Country Review".
NewsBank

A full-text news resource consisting of over 12,800 local, regional, national and international sources. It offers valuable primary source information on today’s issues and events from newspapers, newswires, transcripts, video clips, web only, and blogs.
Nexis Uni
Offers access to a number of reputable news outlets including the New York Times.

Middle East Research and Information Project
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) was established in 1971 to educate and inform the public about contemporary Middle East affairs.

Infographics/Quantitative Research

Statista
An electronic statistics database covering more than 80,000 topics including country stats.

Using Information from Research

To summarize is to take ideas and present them again in a more concise way. But to analyze is to reach your own conclusions about how the elements of a topic, theory, issue, or story fit together to create something that may not be evident at first glance. Examples and tips have been given from two credible sites below:

Ashford University Writing Center

NC State Graduate Writing Center

Poster Design

NYU Guide to Creating a Research Poster
This guide provides you a collection of resources related to best practice of research poster design. Especially useful are the examples offered between good and bad poster design.
Piktochart
You will find a lot of good information separately using these tools. You may want to combine the research you found into a one page summary or handout for your attendees. Create a free account to create a customized infographic using this tool.

Images

Open images are available for use on the open web and other unrestricted environments. Always read and comply with the use restrictions for specific image sources. Always cite images someone else created. Images should not be sold or used in commercial products or for commercial purposes.

Feel free to use images from Google Images with one caveat. In an Advanced Image Search, select Creative Commons licenses in order to avoid violating copyrights.

Check out this open image resource guide brought to you by the fine folks at UW Bothell and Cascadia College.