Article Finder
Articles and More From Journals, Newspapers, and Online Reference Resources
SUBJECT: General Arts and Humanities
Recommended starting places
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(reference resources, encyclopedias)
A database of specialized encyclopedias and other reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Humanities International Complete (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
Indexing and links to full text content for over 1,700 journals in the humanities, as far back as 1929 for some titles. Includes all data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index plus unique full text content.
Oxford Reference Online
(reference resources, dictionaries and encyclopedias)
A collection of over 100 subject specific reference sources and dictionaries from Oxford University Press.
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
(article index)
Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2004-present), Science Citation Index Expanded (2004-present), and Social Sciences Citation Index (1979-present). It offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines, and is useful as a citation analysis tool.
Google Scholar
(article index, e-books, free non-subscription resource)
Google Scholar, currently in development, searches for scholarly materials (peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles) from sources such as academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, and universities.
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences
(reference resource)
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly service which is especially useful for substantial reviews of recently published books.
JSTOR
(article index)
JSTOR's Arts & Sciences I Collection and Mathematics & Statistics Collection provide complete backfiles of 161 core scholarly journal titles starting with the first issues. Note that there is a gap, usually 1 to 5 years, between the most recent issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
Project MUSE
(article index)
Over 200 full text journal titles covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Project MUSE titles are included in the Full Text Journals search in The Source.
Readers' Guide Retrospective (WilsonWeb)
(article index)
1890-1982. Contains indexing of popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.
Windows Live Academic Search
(article index, free non-subscription resource)
Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content for article titles, author names article abstracts, and conference proceedings. (currently in beta version)
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
(reference resource)
A catalog of books and other materials from libraries worldwide.
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