Recommended Article Databases
If you only want to find scholarly journal articles only, be sure to check a box titled "refereed" or "scholarly" or "peer reviewed" journals.
- Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Full-text biographies and critical analyses of writers and their work from a variety of periods and disciplines. (VIVA) - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals; not current. Use the "Advanced Search" to limit just to Articles and to the Language & Literature journal collection. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Offers 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, and others. (VIVA) - Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Magazines and journals; limited newspapers. - ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
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Magazines, journals and newspapers.
What Are Peer Reviewed Journal Articles?
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Many scholarly journals use a process called peer review.
- Before an article can be published in a peer reviewed journal, the journal requires that other scholars in the author's field (the author's peers) critically evaluate the article.
- Peer review is a kind of quality control process to help ensure that the article represents the best scholarship available.
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about finding peer reviewed journal articles.
Search Tips
Select the most important 2-3 ideas related to your topic. Put the word AND between each new word or idea; this tells the database to look for resources with ALL your terms.
flannery o'connor AND "good man is hard to find" AND child*
plath AND daddy AND nazi*
Search Strategy for Literature Resource Center
Put the TITLE of the work in the Keyword box.
Put your SPECIFIC TOPIC (theme, issue, character) in the Entire Document box (you will need to select from the dropdown).
Put the AUTHOR's name in the Person-By or About box.
Search Strategy for JSTOR
Use "Advanced Search" to make these selections:
Then, type your terms in the search box; e.g.:
plath AND daddy AND nazi*