Article databases recommended for you - ENC 1102 - Steinhardt (Dale Mabry) - LibGuides at Hillsborough Community College

Recommended databases for articles

Academic OneFile (Gale)
Full-text journal articles, many peer-reviewed, and reference content, discussing sciences, technology, health sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities, and more. Funded by State Library of Florida. Here is a tutorial.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
PRO TIP: After entering your search terms, Limit to Full Text. After results appear, you can refine them by Source Types.
JSTOR
PRO TIP. Use the search bar on the homepage, the Search dropdown menu, or the Browse dropdown menu at the top of the page to find sources. With the Advanced Search you can search and narrow down the kind of results you want by date, discipline, and item type.

Video tutorial: Using a general library database (00:03:15)
Quick tutorial on using a typical library database that contains mostly articles. The demonstration starts at 1:17 and finishes at 2:41. It shows the Academic Search Complete database is an example of many library databases. Courtesy of Brandon Library.

Google Scholar (Google)
This special part of Google provides an alternative way to search for scholarly articles that may be online. Accessing Google Scholar here will cause results that are in HCC Libraries databases to be labeled as Full Text at HCC. Here is a tutorial.

Literary works deal with themes or subjects. These subjects are often issues that we all confront daily as individuals and in society.

In addition to databases linked in All topics, the specialized social issues research database below can be especially helpful.

History Reference Center (EBSCO)
PRO TIP. Add OR between words for results with either or both words.Add quotation marks around phrases to search for the exact phrase. In the Search Options, check off “Full Text” to only find materials with the full text available.
World History (Gale in Context)
PRO TIP. Browse topics from the lower part of the homepage or click Browse All to find categories and topics. Or type a keyword, country, event, etc. in the search bar. At the top of every topic page is a general overview that can be very useful.Topic pages and results screens give the option to look through academic journals, news, reference, images, etc. Use the Search Within Results box to narrow even further.

Using a typical library database (00:03:15)
Quick tutorial on using a typical library database that contains mostly articles. The demonstration starts at 1:17 and finishes at 2:41. It shows the Academic Search Complete database is an example of many library databases. Courtesy of Brandon Library.

Tip sheet for Literary Reference Center Plus
Tip sheet for Literature (Gale)
The video tutorial How to use literary research databases, linked below, also covers Literature (Gale).

Video tutorial: how to use literary research databases (9:09)
How to find literary criticism articles in PRIMO (the library catalog) - and the literary research databases Bloom's Literature and Literature (Gale).