| Students at colleges and universities must certainly learn to use the subscription databases available at their libraries. Virtually all academic libraries will provide some sort of instruction in the navigation and use of academic databases. This is why you should go to your library and find out about library instruction. You will not regret this basic investment in your academic success. Below, I've listed some of the databases that tend to contain materials of the greatest interest to students in the humanities and social sciences. Your library may not have access to all of these, and the links are for demonstration purposes only. In order to gain access to these databases, you must authenticate through your own institution's servers. The descriptions are quoted from the publishers. Academic Search Premiere (EBSCO) - "The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications." Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE) - "From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers--many with full text and images." Humanities full text (Wilson) - "... covers a full range of subjects: Archaeology ; Area Studies ; Art ; Classical Studies ; Communications ; Dance ; Film ; Folklore ; Gender Studies ; History ; Journalism ; Linguistics ; Literary & Social Criticism ; Literature ; Music ; Performing Arts ; Philosophy ; Religion & Theology. " Iter, Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance - "Indexes literature pertaining to this era, 400-1700. Includes citations from books, journals (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies), essays in books, including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues." JSTOR - "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." Project Muse - "Launched in 1995 to provide full-text access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, it was later expanded to other presses and now publishes over 250 titles online. Disciplines covered include the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. " Sage (CSA Illumina) - "Political science: a SAGE full-text collection includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 18,000 rticles. It covers such subjects as general political science, American government & politics, political sociology, comparative politics, policy studies, political communication, peace/conflict studies, presidential studies, political theory/philosophy, international relations, and area studies." |
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