Finding Articles
Articles from scholarly sources across disciplines:
- Project MuseContains full text of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.
- JSTORA large collection of searchable and browseable full-text scholarly journals. Covers from the beginning of the journal (earliest is 1665) up to within two to five years of the present [the "moving wall"].
Articles on documentaries and films:
- FIAF International Index to Film PeriodicalsVery useful for finding articles/reviews of specific films in film journals.
- Performing Arts Periodicals DatabaseCovers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry--including dance, film, television, drama, theater,and more. Useful for locating articles and reviews about films and television series.
Find articles across disciplines and source types:
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)A general periodical database that provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 4,100 journals and links to the full text for over 3,200 journals. You can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles (scholarly articles).
- Google ScholarSearch for scholarly publications across disciplines.
- ProQuest Research LibrarySearches thousands of articles in general interest magazines and academic journals that cover a wide variety of subjects and academic disciplines. It also includes citations and abstracts to selected newspapers, television and radio programs. We subscribe to most of the periodicals indexed. Many articles are linked from the article citation page. You can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles.
Finding the Full Text of Journal Articles
Use these online databases to find articles in journals and online books. When there is no link to the full text, use our online catalog to look up books and the journal titles you find by searching periodical databases. This catalog lists both the print and electronic versions of journal titles (when available). For guidance on evaluating the articles you find in the databases below, see Distinguishing Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals: A Checklist of Criteria