Finding Journal Articles: Using Indexes
See the English
Research Guide: Using Indexes and Databases to help
select an Index.
MLA
Bibliography < about >
The Modern Language Association International Bibliography
indexes thousands of publications, including articles,
books, book chapters, and dissertations. Subjects included:
literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
There
are no abstracts.
Coverage: 1926 - Present.
Humanities
Abstracts < about >
Humanities Abstracts is a bibliographic database that covers English language
periodicals in the diverse subject areas of the humanities.
Coverage: Indexing - 1984 - present; Abstracting - 1994 - present.
Arts
and Humanities Search < about >
Coverage: 1980 - Present.
Essay
and General Literature Index < about >
Cites essays contained in anthologies and collections published
in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Coverage
spans the humanities and social sciences, including literary
works, art history, drama, and film. Indexing: 1985 to present.
History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences
Historical
Abstracts < about > the
World, excluding the US and Canada,1450
to the present.
Philosopher's
Index < about >
PsycINFO < about > Psychology
Social
Sciences Abstracts < about >
Is a particular journal covered in a specific Index?
Ulrich's
Periodicals Directory Online < about >
Which
journals are in which FirstSearch databases
Do you have access to a journal?
1.) Ariadne (print)
- Title search on Title
of the Journal to locate print journal
2.) Online Journals at K
- Title search on Title
of the Journal to locate article
in a Full Text Database
3.) WestCat -
Western Michigan's catalog
Types of Periodicals
Scholarly Journals (Studies in English literature, 1500-1900)
- Authors are scholars or researchers in their fields.
- Authors cite their sources in footnotes, endnotes,
and bibliographies.
- Individual issues have little or no advertising.
- Articles must go through a peer-review process.
- Articles usually report original scholarly research.
- Most illustrations are charts, figures, or graphs.
- Authors use the specialized language or jargon of the
discipline.
Popular Magazines (Atlantic Monthly)
- Authors are freelance writers or magazine staff members.
- Authors may mention sources, but rarely cite them in
notes or bibliographies.
- Individual issues contain many advertisements.
- There is no peer review process. Articles are reviewed
by editors or publishers.
- Illustrations are numerous and colorful.
- Articles are meant to inform and entertain an educated
audience.
- Language is written for the general adult audience
(no specialized jargon).
Is it Scholarly? Look it up in Ulrich's Online!
Ulrich's
Periodicals Directory Online < about >
Look for section called "Document Type"
Document Type MUST say "Academic/Scholarly
Publication"
to be considered scholarly!
Full Text Databases
JSTOR < about >
Full text database of scholarly journals in many disciplines.
Project
Muse < about >
Project MUSE offers the full text of Johns Hopkins University
Press scholarly journals.
Proquest < about >
Fulltext database with scholarly and popular sources. You can select
to search only peer-reviewed journals.
Full Text Databases that include a mix of Scholarly
and Popular sources:
Academic
OneFile < about >
Expanded
Academic ASAP < about >
General
Reference Center Gold < about >
Wilson
Select Plus < about >
Websites
To find Web sites, use search engines and web indexes. See Finding
Web Sites and Web
Indexes and Directories. See also Finding
Web Sites on English .
WorldCat < about >
WorldCat contains bibliographic citations for high-quality
Web sites on a variety of subjects. When you search
for Web sites in World Cat, remember to check the box for "Internet
Resources" in the section called "Limit type
to". Sites that emphasizes quality,
authoritativeness, and durability are selected, according
to World Cat's collection development policy.
Recommended Web Sites:
Romanticism from the Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750
created by Alan
Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbara, English
Department.
Romantic Circles
http://www.rc.umd.edu/
Refereed scholarly Website devoted to
the study of Romantic-period literature and culture, published
by the University of Maryland.
Literary Resources - Romantic
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/romantic.html
collection maintained by Jack
Lynch of Rutgers, Newark.
A Romantic Natural History
http://users.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/
A website designed to survey relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859).
British Association for Romantic Studies
http://www.bars.ac.uk/resources/barsresources.php?menu=5
Has a useful list of links.
British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
http://www.bsecs.org.uk/
RaVon, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
The Sickly Taper, a bibliography of Gothic scholarship
http://thesicklytaper.pagedepot.com/INDEX.html
The William Blake Archive
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/
Sites that provide guidance on evaluating Websites:
Citing Your Sources
See: How
to Cite Sources
See also Citing
Sources for help in citing print and electronic resources
in various bibliographic styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.)
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
6th ed., New York : Modern Language Association of America,
2003.
Reference, LB2369 .G53 2003.
ALWAYS check the style manual!! DO NOT rely on other
guides!
