Research Guides: English 373: Contemporary British and Irish Literature: Get Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Finding Journal Articles with EbscoHost

EbscoHost is a database of newspaper, magazine, and journal articles, many full-text.

Choose MLA International Bibliography and other databases relevant to your research: Academic Search Complete, Communication and Mass Media, and Gender Studies are often good choices.

Use Advanced Search for greater control over your search terms
Use the Peer Reviewed / Scholarly Journals to filter.

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Literature, language, linguistics, folklore references from the Modern Language Association. Includes references to journal articles, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Although full text is not included in the MLA Bibliography, the Find it @ WVU service provides links to full text from other databases when available.

Project Muse / JSTOR

ProjectMuse has full-text scholarly articles from many journals in the humanities.

Choose Books and Journals, Books, or Journals from the drop-down menu.
Type search terms into box.
On the results page, click Only Content I Have Full Access To box.
Narrow results by choosing the appropriate Research Area on the left-hand side of screen.

Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE provides searchable, full text access to more than 100 academic journals. It covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

JSTOR has full-text scholarly articles from journals in many disciplines.

For best results, use the Advanced Search
If you want only articles, make sure you click on the box next to Articles.
You can restrict By Discipline: Language and Linguistics and Literature are some suggested choices.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is an archive of more than 1,000 scholarly, interdisciplinary journals, with full coverage for all but the most current 3-5 years. The entire archive is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.

Help with Finding & Getting Articles

Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad)
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Find it @ WVU
Have a citation and need to find an article. a book, dissertation, or patent? Use Citation Linker @ WVU. Just enter the citation information into the form.