Articles play an extremely important role in research, especially as more and more material is available electronically and open-access. Articles can be found in a variety of publications, including:
Your professor may require you use only scholarly or peer reviewed journals for your article sources. These materials have gone through a more rigorous examination by experts in the field before being published. Many databases allow you to limit by scholarly and peer reviewed.
Just as with books, some scholarly and peer-reviewed journals are considered to be of a higher caliber and this is often reflected in a journal's impact factor. Impact factor is determined by the yearly number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. Paying attention to impact factor can help you find more respected sources and core journals in your discipline. Some databases indicate a journal's impact factor; you can also check HERE to determine core journals in your discipline based on these metrics.
Provides in-depth reports on topics pertaining to current issues. Reports provide an overview, historical background, pro/con arguments, chronological information, and a bibliography of the topic. Includes legal, political, and social issues, communication and mass media, health, education, science, and technology from 1923 to present.
Dictionaries, encyclopedias, guides, handbooks, biographies and other reference works. Covers all subjects including arts, business, education, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, philosophy, religion, science, and social science.
Contains legislative and executive documents of the first 14 U.S. Congresses.
The largest collection of fully searchable 18th- and 19th-century Caribbean newspapers. More than 140 titles from 22 islands. Essential primary document research for Caribbean history.
Find thousands of papers that were presented to the Privy Council and the Board of Trade between 1574-1757, and that relate to the governance of, and activities in, the American, Canadian and West Indian colonies of England.
Part I and Part II: Find full-text works printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
A digitized, full-text searchable archive of primary sources from the Holocaust, including people's testimonies, family narratives, and documented activities of the Nazi regime. Features eyewitness accounts, photos, books, and propaganda material.
Coverage: 1785?2012. History, literature, culture, business, art and architecture, and more. Every complete page of every issue is full-text searchable.
Access primary sources from the NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, and federal records on the black freedom struggle.
Provides comprehensive access to primary source United States newspaper content from the 19th century with an emphasis on the American Civil War, Western migration, and other subjects. Features full-text searching and facsimile-images.
Full text of the Congressional Record (1873-2009) and its predecessors, the Congressional Globe (1833-1873), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Annals of Congress (1789-1824). For more recent editions, go to Congress.gov.
Find articles and primary sources on the U.S. Civil War.
This is a comprehensive, full-text searchable archive of historic Times Literary Supplement material from 1902-2019, including book and art reviews, poems, letters, and commentary pieces.
The digital version of the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Spans sixteenth to twentieth century. Find full-text digitized historical and contemporary primary sources, including historical monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, and peer-reviewed journals on Latin America and the Caribbean. Original essays allow researchers to connect between key topics and primary sources, giving new perspectives to historical content.
