LibGuides: INRW 0340 Co-req w/ ENGL 1301: Spaventa/Frye Spring '24: Finding Articles: Searching in Databases

Keywords

Use Keywords to search - not sentences!

Keywords are the most important words in your topic.

Example topic: Do video games make teenagers violent?

Keywords:

"video games"
teenagers
violence

Magazine/Newspaper/Journal Article Databases

List of all ACC Library Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles, news, and research on topics in most subject areas.
Bloom's Literature This link opens in a new window
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Offering written plays, video, acting classes, scholarly critical books, and audio plays, Drama Online supports English Shakespeare curriculum, drama practitioner curriculum, and more.
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources, including thousands of podcasts as well as videos.
Gale in Context: World History This link opens in a new window
Articles, essays, and primary documents about world history.
Gale Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
Includes both Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism -- extensive compilation of literary commentary -- and Gale's Short Story Criticism -- thousands of essays on the critical response to short story writers
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Contains up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Contains more than a thousand academic journals and over one million images, letters, and other primary sources.
Literary Reference Source This link opens in a new window
Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
MAS Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles from popular magazines, plus some reference sources. Most articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile).
MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles on most topics including business, health, education, science, and social issues.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Articles on topics in psychiatry, psychology, and observational and experimental methods.

Reference Article Databases

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Online collection of general and subject-specific reference works on all major topic areas.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Includes over 25,000 articles covering an array of topics.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Online collection of general and subject-specific encyclopedias on all major topic areas.
Gale Literature: LitFinder This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 132,000 full-text poems and 670,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Online collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and illustrations.

Identifying Keywords Tutorial

Find out more about selecting keywords in the Identifying Keywords Tutorial.

Identifying Keywords Tutorial

Tips for Effective Database Searching

"Online Research: Tips for Effective Search Strategies" by Sara Clark is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Combining Keywords

Finding Articles Tutorial

Find out more about finding articles in databases in the Finding Articles Tutorial.

Finding Articles Tutorial