Welcome! This guide will serve as a starting point for Shippensburg University students wishing to conduct research on various aspects of the national debate over aging and age discrimination. You will find sources that introduce you to your topic and keep you up-to-date with links to news articles, research websites, journal articles, and research reports concerning aging and age discrimination.
You will also find selected key publications, books & E-books, research organizations and advocacy groups, data sources and links to general and specialized databases for further research.
Main Term(s): aging, age discrimination
Related Terms: age awareness, age factors in disease, ageism, human life cycle, maturation (psychology), middle age, older people (-- abuse of)
Broader Terms: gerontology
Narrower Terms: adult development, premature aging (medicine), successful aging, age discrimination in employment, age discrimination in higher education, age discrimination in insurance
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Adulthood and Aging by 
Gerontology for the Health Care Professional by 
Praeger Handbook on Understanding and Preventing Workplace Discrimination by 
The Upside of Aging by 
Ageing by 
Population Aging by 
The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy by Income by A number of important national newspapers have topic or issue sections of their website that bring together all the paper's articles on particular topics. The leading example of this is "Times Topics" from the New York Times. Each topic guide/section has a search tool that lets you refine your search.
Unfortunately, these sections are often not easy to browse or locate on the newspaper websites. Use the "High Quality Web Source Finder" search box above to search for your topic. Then choose the Newspaper Topic Guides tab to look for these in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. If you should hit a pay wall when browsing these newspapers, simply search for articles from any of these three papers using the ProQuest Newstand library database.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research division of Congress. It issues detailed research reports on a very wide range of issues. CRS doesn't maintain its own website, but its reports are available through several organizations and libraries.
