Finding Articles - PACS 430 - Senior Seminar - LibGuides at DePauw University Libraries

Databases likely to be useful for all topics

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles (or article summaries) from scholarly journals, newspapers and popular magazines covering most academic disciplines. Some as far back as early 1900's, but mostly since about 1970.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? It’s an excellent tool for scholarly articles and books/chapters from university presses, covering most disciplines.
- What's included? The collection's strength lies in its complete back issues of journal titles covering 75 disciplines, while a weakness is a "moving wall" limiting access to the most recent journal issues - the coverage skews older, so it’s not always a great starting point for researching topics that need to have the most current sources.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You need scholarly articles on the humanities and social sciences.
- What's included? Project Muse is a collection of established and longstanding scholarly journals in full-text for humanities and social sciences journals. Strengths of this collection include its caliber of content with historical and the current holdings.

Discipline-specific databases useful for some topics

Links below will direct you to some subject-specific databases that might be useful for your research. If a subject you're interested in isn't represented here, or you want to see more options, go to the alphabetic list of all databases, and use the "subjects" pull-down menu at the top to view more complete lists

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You’re writing about a topic in sociology or related fields.
- What's included? International academic literature of sociology and related disciplines, including the companion file Social Services Abstracts, which is current research focused on social work & human services. Mostly from 1990s+.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You’re researching topics about gender issues.
- What's included? Articles from journals, magazines, newspapers (some working papers & dissertations), published since 1970. Almost all are full text. Gender studies, men's studies, & women's studies.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, predominately in the United States, 1959-present. Includes Asian-American, Jewish-American, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European-American, multi-ethnic communities and more.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You’re researching a topic that anthropologists might have studied.
- What's included? The past, present and future publications from the American Anthropological Association - more than 250,000 articles from journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You’re looking for journal articles for a topic related to religions.
- What's included? Full-text journals and essays from over 360 religion and theology journals. The option to find articles about specific Christian/Judaic scripture passages.