Research Guides: English 384: American Studies: Journal Articles

Finding Journal Articles with EbscoHost

Choose MLA International Bibliography and other databases relevant to your research: Academic Search Complete, Art Abstracts, Communication & Mass Media Complete, and America: History and Life.

Use Advanced Search to retrieve more precise results.
Choose the Peer-Reviewed (Scholarly) box to retrieve peer-reviewed articles

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All EBSCOhost databases, cross-searchable, providing coverage for journal articles and other information in academic disciplines. Databases included are described on the database selection page. Many include links to full text of the articles indexed.

Project Muse / JSTOR

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

Choose Advanced Search
Choose Articles from the Content Type menu on the right-hand side
Type search terms into box.
Narrow results by choosing the appropriate Research Area on the left-hand side of screen.

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: Art and Art History; Film Studies; Language and Literature; Performing Arts are some suggested choices.

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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 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.