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Finding Articles
  • How do you find articles?
    • Databases are the best resources to get journal articles.
    • Databases are available 24/7 ONLY to Ramapo students.
    • Off campus use require you to login: use your Ramapo email and email password.

Types of Articles 

  • Scholarly v. Popular: What's in a name?

    • Scholarly/Peer Reviewed/Refereed articles have been reviewed by a selected panel of experts in the discipline covered by that journal. Many databases allow you to limit or filter your search to these articles.
    • Don't know if an article comes from a scholarly publication? Check out the database called Ulrich's. Ulrich's is a database that allows you to check if a journal is scholarly. Enter the name of the journal (not the article) into this database. If you see a referee shirt next to the journal name, its a scholarly journal.

  • HTML Full-text v. PDF: What's the difference?

    • Always try to use a PDF link over other options. PDFs are exact copies of articles. HTML Full-text articles will provide you with the text of the article, but may leave out pictures, graphes or other visual information.

Suggested Databases
 		 
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, critical analyses of authors from every age of literary disciplines. The database covers over 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, other writers, within in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most studied authors.
Project Muse
Project MUSE offers full text, affordable access to current content from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE is the most reliable source of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, journals with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields.
JSTOR
Entirely full-text, scholarly articles.  TIP: Cannot email articles -- email yourself the stable url. Do not print from browser print button. Use the JSTOR print option.
Contemporary Authors
Tip: Unless you're searching for a very common surname, you might want to search for the surname alone, then choose the most likely match from the citation list page. Sometimes there are variations on the way an author's name is indexed, especially if the person uses initials. 
MLA Bibliography
Access to more than 1.6 million bibliographic citations from 1963 to the present, with author biographies, critical essays and journal articles in every literary genre. When the full-text of the article is not linked to the citation, click on Check availability. This database is included in Literature Resource Center.
Academic Search PremierA multi-disciplinary database containing both full-text articles and citations. TIP: When only a citation is included, click on the "Check availability at Ramapo" link to see if the full-text of the article is available on our collection. You may also limit your Document Type to Literary Criticism.
Wilson OmniFile
Over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad. Users have access to information on virtually any subject.