When you are looking for scholarly articles to use for your paper, consider looking outside typical literature themed databases. If you are looking at LGBTQ issues, then check out some of the LGBTQ databases. Look at the larger subject in your research and start there. Below you will find a list of databases that might be helpful in your rsearch.
Full text for about 8,500 periodicals including over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals across most areas of academic study as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 magazines and journals. Coverage is from 1887 to the present.
Search digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study of African American Studies.
Search open access African-published scholarly journals.
Search digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study of African Studies.
Search thousands of full-text reviews of children's books, and information on authors and illustrators, teaching materials, book awards, and more.
Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more.
Search the biographies and bibliographies of thousands of U.S. and international authors. Continuously updated.
Search periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
Indexes essays and articles in anthologies and collections, emphasizing the humanities and social sciences. Citations to more than 249,000 essays in collections and anthologies published in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain; covers the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film. 1900-1984
Online global resource including political, economic and statistical information about more than 250 countries and territories, as well as international and regional organizations.
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The Europa World Year Book was first published in 1926 and, together with the nine Regional Surveys of the World, is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works.
Search this database for background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness. It also includes a collection of points of view essays offering solutions to issues related to race.
Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.
Search across literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres.
Search and discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Includes both Humanities Full Text and Humanities International. Contains over 1400 full text journals with citations to over 3,500,000 articles.
Database provide full-text access to thousands of academic journals and e-books across most subject areas.
Search the most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. Includes analysis from book excerpts, periodicals, and more.
Search up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
Contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. Includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR's language and literature collection as well as links to full text. Coverage is from about 1920.
The field of Medieval Studies explores European and Mediterranean civilization from the 4th to the 15th centuries. This period, which has a critical importance for the understanding of Western culture, can best be approached through a combination of several disciplines, from history to literature, from art to archaeology, from religion to gender studies. As such, it is constantly responding to the emergence of new interpretations and ideas for scholars to consider. In addition to the extensive scholarship which already exists, much of the most recent work has moved online so that today’s students and researchers have ready access to primary source texts and a range of other electronic resources.
Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies Online offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource directs researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
Search scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.
Database includes full-text access to hundreds of journals and e-books from university presses and scholarly journals.
Contains books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting women's reform activities and social movements from 1600-2000.
Can be used for course content: Excellent primary source collections.
Daily Life World Folklore and Folklife is an invaluable multicultural and multidisciplinary resource that offers an exciting, multimedia gateway to social history and social studies. Tracing the origins and development of all aspects of traditional cultures around the world, it bridges the gap between past and present.
Can be used for course content: Excellent primary source collections.
Daily Life World Folklore and Folklife allows users to research topics from scary stories to gender roles with ease. Thousands of folktales have been specially indexed to be searchable by subject and tale type, region, or country. Supporting the curriculum in the areas of world cultures, history, arts, literature, and language, this expansive database is the only electronic resource broad enough to provide both folk material and the textual content needed to understand it.