Research Guides: English 1010: Find Articles

Interdisciplinary Databases

Find scholarly, news, and popular articles covering many subjects

Academic Search Ultimate
Scholarly articles and general interest sources in all fields.
JSTOR
Scholarly journals and books in all disciplines.
Project Muse
Provides full-text access to a selection of humanities and social sciences journals
ScienceDirect
Extensive database of Elsevier journals in a wide range of subjects. Excellent searching capabilities and full text access. An excellent resource for authoritative information in many subject disciplines.

Subject Databases

This is a small selection of subject-related databases that may be useful for some of your topics. Additional lists of subject databases can be found on our Article Databases Subject List

Business Source Premire
A top level full-text business database consisting of popular business magazines, scholarly journals and trade publications.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
This database indexing, abstracts, and some full-text coverage of numerous journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields.
Criminal Justice Abstracts With Full Text
Provides more than 300,000 bibliographic records and full text for more than 200 magazines and journals covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology
ERIC
Education-related literature, from pre-K through adult education.
GenderWatch
Indexing, abstracts and full-text collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, conference reports on gender studies sources with coverage from the 1970’s to the present.
MLA International Bibliography
The most comprehensive source for scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
PsycINFO
Academic, research, and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines, 1872 to present.

Anatomy of a Scholarly Article

Anatomy of a Scholarly Article: Take a look at how a scholarly article is often put together. This can help you read speedily to answer important questions about what a source is claiming, and the evidence it uses.

Compare the anatomy of an article in the humanities: The article anatomy linked above is from a STEM field. Take a look at this page to see a comparison with how scholarly articles in the humanities are likely to look.

News Article Databases

ProQuest US Newsstream
Full-text of the most recent premium U.S. news content as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. newspapers such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.
Nexis Uni
Features more than 15,000 news, business, and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Ethnic NewsWatch
A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

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