Searching Articles/Databases - ENGL 130 - Academic Writing; Society and Culture from a Dystopian Perspective

Articles and Databases

Academic Search This link opens in a new window Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,650 periodicals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, etc.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

Database Tips and Tools

Make full use of limiters and tools. Each database is different but in general they will all have some variation of the following limiters and tools. For more results make sure Fast Full Text is not selected. If Full Text is not selected you may need to use Interlibrary Services. Update the year for more current research.

Many databases have the above tools. You can usually email yourself a copy of the article or record, save full text articles, send yourself the permanent link and/or use the citation provided by the database. Make sure to double check the citation as they are computer generated and may have mistakes.