Articles provide focused discussions on specific topics. Because they are published more quickly and more frequently than books you will usually find the most recent works on a topic in the forms of articles.
Scholarly articles will always have citations to the author's sources in the form of footnotes, end notes, or a bibliography (or a combination of these). Peer reviewed articles are scholarly articles that were reviewed by experts in a field before being selected for publication.
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Scholarly, multi-disciplinary database covering thousands of journals and other publications. Includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, and indexing/abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
Contains citations to articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. Includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
Contains citations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Indexes journals published throughout the world. Also includes a targeted selection of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history.
Includes full text of journals and books in a wide range of subject areas. Also includes high-quality primary sources and images from around the world, including artworks, maps, photographs, and more (including those from Artstor).
Provides detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. Covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription.
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Provides full-text anthropological resources from the publications of the American Anthropological Association. Contains more than 250,000 articles from AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins, and monographs covering a range of fields in anthropology.
Combines Anthropological Literature (Harvard University) and Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute, UK). Provides extensive worldwide indexing of publications in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
Provides expert commentary to help students and scholars find, negotiate, and assess the large amount of information readily available to them. Facilitates research by providing direct links to online library catalogs and other online resources.
Includes full text of journals and books in a wide range of subject areas. Also includes high-quality primary sources and images from around the world, including artworks, maps, photographs, and more (including those from Artstor).
Database of open access journals covering all scientific and scholarly subjects. Use to identify open access journal titles. Journals can be browsed by title or by broad subject area. Articles are searchable by article author or title, ISSN, journal title, abstract, or key words. Full-text is not searchable but is fully accessible.
Contains digital images with accompanying data, as well as software tools to enable researchers to use the images actively. Allows searching and browsing of images from a wide range of cultures and time periods, focusing on but not limited to the arts. Designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship in art history and many other disciplines.
Index to scholarly journals and collected works on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern art and archaeology.
Note: Though the database offers an English language option, much of the interface and help material is still in German.
An international index to 3,000 journals across major scholarly disciplines, with a particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, and economics.
Searches can be limited to French language only. Provides an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases produced by the l’Inist-CNRS (1972 and 2015).
Provides citations from journals, serials, maps, theses and dissertations, government publications, books, and reports in the fields of geology and geophysics. Topics include energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, nuclear reactor sites, landslides, and erosion, as well as the history of the earth, the structure of the earth, the study of ore deposits, and geostatistics.
Contains specially-commissioned essays in the field of archaeology offering both thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource for scholars and advanced students.