Specialized Arts & Humanities Databases

Searching Articles and Databases (accessible)

Select and search appropriate databases to discover useful articles

Search individual databases. Databases are browsable by title and by subject area.

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Database Indexes and Full Text (accessible)

Periodical indexes (in databases) identify and locate the articles published in magazines, journals and newspapers. Many databases also index essays, book chapters and monographs. Some—but not all—databases provide full-text articles.

If the database does not provide full-text, but does give you a citation, click on the Get it! Cornell link to see if there is full text access through another database. If that doesn't work, take down the full article citation. Then, go back to the catalog and search for the title of the journal the article appears in. The catalog will indicate which issues of the journal Cornell holds in both print and electronic forms. The full text of the article may be available through a different database.

For more precise searching, search databases individually. Browse the list of specialized indexes in the Art and Architecture section of the Databases search. If your subject is interdisciplinary, try searching in another category.

Article Databases & Indexes

Full-text Collections

JSTOR logoJSTOR: the scholarly journal archive. A full-text collection containing the back issues of hundreds of scholarly journals. Most of the articles are at least five years old. Since it is searching the full text, be sure to use the Advanced Search function to narrow down results as much as possible. It is not uncommon to get search results of many thousands of hits in JSTOR.

Project Muse logoProject MUSE: A full-text collection of recently published articles in the social sciences and humanities. Covers recent issues of many journals that may not appear in JSTOR.