This collection provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals covering the subjects of music, theatre, film, tv, dance, architecture, art and design.
You can use Communication and Mass Media Complete to access communications literature of great scope and depth. The database indexes, with some full text coverage, over 550 subject specific titles.
You can use Academic Search Premier to search for full text articles covering topics in biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion and theology, sociology, etc. A useful database for a broad range of needs, Academic Search Premier indexes nearly 13,800 publications, with over 4,700 of them providing access to the full-text.
You can use JSTOR to access full-text, full-image, scholarly journal articles. This archival database covers the Humanities and Social Sciences. Specific topics include African-American Studies, Anthropology, Finance, and Mathematics.
When doing a literature review on a topic. Frequently "studies" and/or "research" are the preferred type of article. In all the databases, you can limit to scholarly or "peer reviewed" and that helps.
Adding the word "methodology," "research," or "study" to your key word search can increase the usefulness of your search results.
(Example: "cultivation theory" and methodology)
Remember "research articles" frequently contain the following information (usually denoted by separate headings).
ABSTRACT * RESEARCH * METHODOLOGY * CONCLUSIONS * REFERENCES
Search Google Scholar to find citations to scholarly articles. While some articles are freely available via the web, many are not. If you find a useful article citation using Google Scholar, check the Berntsen Library's Journal Title Search to see if you can access the journal via the library. Otherwise, you may request the article via Inter-Library Loan by submitting a request through Library Search.