Searching for your topic? Use databases.
- America: History & Life (EBSCOHost)history
Scholarly articles on history in the US and Canada, from prehistory to the present. This is the best database to search for American history topics.
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College login required - Historical Abstracts (EBSCOHost)history
Articles in history. For US and Canda history, use America: History and Life. For history before 1450 CE, use JSTOR, Academic Search Complete and ProQuest Research Library..
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College login required - JSTORall subjects
JSTOR does not have articles from the past year or two!!!
Articles in all subjects. Especially good for ancient history, literature, film studies, mathematics, environmental science, African American studies.
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Free Access for the public to most JSTOR content here - http://about.jstor.org/individuals - Academic Search Complete (EBSCOHost)all subjects
Lots of full-text scholarly articles in all subjects - great place to start your research.
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College login required - ProQuest Research Libraryall subjects
Scholarly and popular articles in all subjects. This is a great place to start your research.
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Know what article or journal you're looking for?
- Google Scholar, with library full-text linksKnow the name of the article? This link passes you through the college login to get to Google Scholar. Put the article title in quotes! Look for the "Full-text @ ESC Library" link.
- Journal FinderKnow the name of the journal? This tool lets you enter the journal's title into the search box and shows you the databases that have articles from that journal. Here's the How To.
What are scholarly/peer reviewed articles?
In scholarly/peer reviewed articles:
- Author is an expert in the subject
- Content is evaluated by other experts before publication
- All information sources are cited
Some databases have all scholarly material. Others have an option to search for only scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.
Need help with searching?
- Identify keywordsSearching for English phrases in a database doesn't work. You have to boil your topic or question down into keywords that represent its basic concepts.
- Combine keywordsEntering your keywords by themselves is less effective than combining them with Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT, etc.) Here's how to do it.
- Citing basicsA collection of web sites that will help you cite your sources (aka document your sources, make footnotes and bibliography.)
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