Recommended Databases
Use these online databases to find articles in journals and some online book chapters. Use our Catalog to look up the books and the journal titles you find by searching these databases. The catalog lists access information for both the print and electronic versions of journals.
Databases for finding articles published ion specific subjects:
First choice for finding articles and books about fairy tales:
- MLA International BibliographyAn international index and database providing references to articles from over 4000 journals in literature, folktales, fairy tales, literary theory, semiotics, and linguistics. Useful for finding literary criticism of a particular author or work, as well as articles on literary theory, women's studies, popular culture, and performing arts.
Databases for articles on film, psychology, and social sciences:
- Communication & Mass Media CompleteExtends coverage beyond film (in FIAF) to reviews of other media.
- FIAF International Index to Film PeriodicalsIn-depth coverage of the world's academic and popular film journals. Some links to the article full text.
- Performing Arts Periodicals DatabaseCovers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry--including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more.
- PsycINFOSearchable access to the scholarly literature in psychology.
- Sociology Source UltimateCoverage of articles across the social sciences iincluding labor, crime, demography, economic sociology, immigration, ethnic, racial and gender studies, family, political sociology, religion, development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, social history, theory, methodology, and more.
Databases to find articles in journals, and magazines across disciplines:
- 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).
- 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.
Databases of scholarly sources across disciplines:
- Google ScholarA searchable database of scholarly literature across all disciplines--articles, books, and papers--with links to the full text in many cases.
- 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"].
- 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.