Articles from Databases - ENGL1302 - Holton - LibGuides at Austin Community College

What are Databases and Why You Need Them

Articles and Databases

Magazine/Journal/Newspaper Article Databases

The following databases can be searched to find articles from journals and magazines on your topic. You can access a full list of the library's databases from our A-Z List of Databases page.

Bloom's Literature
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
Gale Literature Resource Center
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.
Literary Reference Source

Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
Gale Literature Criticism
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
JSTOR

Contains more than a thousand academic journals and over one million images, letters, and other primary sources.
Academic Search Complete
Scholarly articles, news, and research on topics in most subject areas.
Humanities Full Text
Provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines.

Reference Article Databases

Gale eBooks
Online collection of general and subject-specific encyclopedias on all major topic areas.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Includes over 25,000 articles covering an array of topics.
Oxford Reference

Online collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and illustrations.

Finding Articles Tutorial

Finding Articles Tutorial

Try out searching in some of the library databases with the Finding Articles Tutorial.

Finding Periodical Articles
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ENGL1302 - Holton: Articles from Databases

What are Databases and Why You Need Them

Articles and Databases

Magazine/Journal/Newspaper Article Databases

Reference Article Databases

Finding Articles Tutorial