Folklore / Urban Legends Research Guide  Tags: pop_culture american_studies folklore urban_legends uls  

You can use interlibrary loan (ILLiad) to request materials not owned by the WVU Libraries.

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

Choose databases relevant to your research, such as

• Academic Search Premier
• America: History & Life
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Film & Television Literature
• MLA International Bibliography.

Choose the Full Text box to retrieve articles available online.
Choose the Peer-Reviewed (Scholarly) box to retrieve peer-reviewed articles.

Links to the Lexis-Nexis Database.

Choose the NEWS tab and then Natural Language for easier searching.

To find transcipts of news broadcasts, choose the NEWS tab.

Use the pull-down Sources menu and choose Transcripts. Be sure to choose specific news outlets.