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.
Find articles on life sciences, history, art, anthropology, architecture, business, economics, film, geography, language, literature, management, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, religion, sociology, and more. Also includes images from universities, museums, and community and private collections, including Artstor.
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Provides in-depth reports on current social, political, and economic issues. The archive includes reports dating back to 1923.
Search hundreds of reference sources including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as images, audio clips, and videos.
Includes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, magazine and journal articles, images, videos, primary resources, and more.
A database of encyclopedias and other reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform.
Search or browse over 200 digitized service newspapers published during World War II and immediately after. An interactive map allows you to explore by location of distribution and origin.
Contains legislative and executive documents of the first 14 U.S. Congresses.
Access the Baltimore Afro-American paper, the most widely circulated black newspaper on the Atlantic coast, spanning 1893-1988. The newspaper combated racial discrimination and was the first black newspaper to have female sports and foreign correspondents as well as correspondents reporting on World War II.
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.
Complete, digitized images of all the works listed in the key bibliographic records of English literature: The Short-Title Catalogue (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); The Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700); The Thomason Tracts; and the Early English Books Tract Supplements, as well as original almanacs, pamphlets, musical scores, prayer books and other intriguing primary sources.
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.
The London Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue beginning in 1785.
Access primary sources from the NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, and federal records on the black freedom struggle.
Find full text, full page and article-level images from the New York Times (1851 - 2021).
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.
Digital scans and transcriptions of Queen Victoria's journals, written between 1832 and 1901 and previously only available in print at the Royal Archives. The database is searchable and browsable, and it contains a useful timeline and scans of the Queen's journal and sketchbook illustrations.
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.
Find full-text primary sources related to women's international activism 1840 to the present, focused on issues related to peace, poverty, child labor, literacy, disease prevention, and global inequality.
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.
