LibGuides: ENGL 1301/INRW 0340: Ackers Summer '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

Identifying Keywords Tutorial

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

Identifying Keywords Tutorial

Suggested Magazine/Newspaper/Journal Article Databases

Below is a list of ACC Library magazine, journal, and newspaper databases where you may find resources in support of your research assignments. These are just suggestions and this list is not a full list of all of the databases ACC Libraries subscribes to. You may find a full list of ACC Library databases on the A-Z List of Databases page.

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.
Gale in Context: World History This link opens in a new window
Articles, essays, and primary documents about world history.
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.
The New York Times This link opens in a new window
All ACC faculty, students, and staff have full access to The New York Times website.
First time users register using your ACC email at Access NYTime URL: https://nytimesineducation.com/access-nyt/
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Articles on topics in psychiatry, psychology, and observational and experimental methods.
Race Relations Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database covering areas relevant to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of relevance to the discipline
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full-text, peer-reviewed sociology journals covering gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion and social work. It also includes thousands of author profiles and a sociological thesaurus.
Washington Post This link opens in a new window
Newspaper articles from 1987 to the present.

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