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English 110D - The Craft of Writing: School Cultures (Wu)

 

The Guide to Library Research provides an introduction to the search process, including an overview of "Scholarly" and "Popular" Publications

 

Selected Databases for Journal & Magazine Articles

General Databases, covering scholarly & popular publications. Most articles available full-text.

Academic Search Complete

Research Library (at ProQuest)

 

 

Education Databases

ERIC at EBSCOHost part of the database offerings in GALILEO
Index and abstracts of articles, books, and documents covering education research and practice. Coverage is from 1966.

ERIC at FirstSearch
Index and abstracts of articles, books, and documents covering education research and practice. Coverage is from 1966.

 

Databases for Scholarly Articles

JSTOR
Full-text scholarly articles published "a few" years ago based on the JSTOR Moving Wall for each journal.

Professional Development Collection part of the database offerings in GALILEO
Specialized collection of journal articles and pamphlets especially for professional educators. Includes indexing and abstracts for over 800 titles and full text for over 500 journals covering current topics in education. Coverage is from 1984; full text from 1990.

ProjectMuse
Provides full-text access to recent issues of more than 40 key journals in the humanities and social sciences.

SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.

 

News

General News:

Newspaper Source

ProQuest Newspapers

 
Lexis-Nexis
Lexis-Nexis off campus access
Searching for an article or periodical in LexisNexis Academic

Approximately 5,000 publications, virtually all include full text.

 

Specialized News. Mostly full-text.
Ethnic News Watch
GenderWatch
LGBT Life with Full Text

 

 

To get the full text of the article

Many articles in these databases will be available full text online. If not, there will often be an icon or a link to search for full text (different databases set this up in different ways).

Clicking on the Find It button will help you see if the article is available full text through another database, and there will be a link into the online library catalog SOPHIA so you can see if we have the journal in print. The Journal/Article Locator link on the library home page is another way to get to this type of search.

If we don't own or have access to the publication, you can request the article through Interlibrary Loan, or check to see if another local library that you can visit owns it. Which leads us to:

One more very useful database

WorldCat
Find books & publications owned by databases worldwide.

You do not need to know who owns a book or journal before placing an InterLibrary Loan request.

For additional assistance, please contact the McCain Library Reference Desk in person, by phone (404-471-6096), by email, or IM us at asclibrarian (AOL & Yahoo!)

 

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