Research Guides: FYSW 100 (Johnson): Scholarly Articles

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ProQuest
Access to many full-text databases. Consider limiting your search to databases most relevant to your role model's field. Limit results to scholarly/peer reviewed.
EBSCO
Access to many full-text databases. Consider limiting your search to databases most relevant to your role model's field. Limit results to scholarly/peer reviewed.
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to back issues of selected scholarly books and journals across all academic disciplines. Particularly useful for Humanities and Social Sciences. 3-5 year embargo on journals.

3-5 year embargo on journals.
Nine Arts and Sciences collections: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
(Gale) A collection of critical essays on contemporary writers which include biographical/critical introduction, list of major works and sources for further study.
Literature Criticism Online
(Gale) Criticism of literary works from such criticism series as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, and more.
MLA International Bibliography
(EBSCO) Index of critical material in journal articles and books on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

How do I know if the full text of an article is available ?

Library database results will have full text available in either HTML text or a PDF document.

With most full text databases you should be able to print, e-mail, and/or save the article.

Database results will have (or similar) which can connect you with the full text in two ways:

A link to the full text of the article via another database that we subscribe to

A link to an Interlibrary Loan request form is provided. Once articles are obtained from another library the articles will be e-mailed to you (next day or up to 5 business days).