"a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research." (from Google's own description). Click here to learn how to set Google Scholar Preferences to set your home computer's borwser preferences to link to SU journals.
a portal to reports and statistics published by the federal, state and local government agencies. Tip: sometimes print is easier. If you are having trouble finding what you need statisticswise, get a copy of the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (REF HA202.A38), which has a subject index in the back. Once you find your data in one of the tables, look at the source, then search for that agency using the URL provided or USAsearch, or use Google or another search engine.
