Scholarly and popular magazines and newspapers offer scholarly and popular treatments of activity
surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis. The follow are large collections of journal articles which include
those dealing with this topic.   (To gain access from home,  use your 16 digit I-card number.)

• EBSCOhost--provides access to the full-text of thousands of periodicals and bibliographic
  access to thousands more.
• Gale/Infotrac-provides access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic
  access to thousands more.

E-Journals
These collections of scholarly journal articles from the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the present.
 

• Project MUSE -- provides more than 200 full-text online scholarly journals from academic
  presses covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts,
  cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
• JSTOR-- Online archives of over 125 journals in African-American Studies, Anthropology,
  Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics,
  Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. JSTOR is designed
   specifically for archiving journals, so it does not include the most recent 2-5 years of each title.

Searching for Specific Journal Titles

• Use IUP Libraries Electronic Journals Search to check if an electronic journal is available
  through one of our databases.  Bibliographic records for electronic journals are also
  in the PILOT online catalog.

Newspaper Sources

• Lexis Nexis Academic Universe-full-text database includes the last twenty years of local,
  national, and international newspapers and many other useful sources.
• Newslink

Electronic Indexes

• America:  History and Life-- coverage of historical literature of the United States and Canada
  from prehistory to the present. 
• Historical Abstracts--historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the
  United States and Canada)
• Other online databases--many other databases are available from the Library's web page
  under Databases. 

Internet Sites can provide valuable primary and secondary sources for the study of
historic events, but often lack scholarly editorial review so should be used with caution.
You may wish to begin with the following sites:

• National Security Archive. The Cuban Missile Crisis
• Documents from Avalon Project

For a list of search engines and subject directories, try :

• Infopeople Best Search Tools.

Citing What You Have Found:

• Document your sources--good research is based upon reviewing the writing of
  others, but it is essential to acknowledge those sources both to add authority to
  your work and to give  credit to other authors. Style guides are available for various
  disciplines to cite such sources appropriately and include MLA, APA , and guides to
  Citing Online Sources.
• Turabian Citation Guide
• Chicago Citation Guide

Bibliographic Management Software

• EndNote -- world's most popular bibliographic software allows users to create
  searchable bibliographic databases with notes,   draw bibliographic information
  from online catalogs and periodical databases, and create within Microsoft Word
  instant  bibliographic references and bibliographies in any style.   Students can
  pick up copies of EndNote software with I-card at the IT Support Center at the
  Suites on Grant Lower, Suite G35. 724-357-4000.