English 111 - Bennett: Find Articles

Databases allow you to search for citations and full-text articles in popular magazines and scholarly journals

Databases cover all sorts of subjects and are especially useful for current information

Databases index information which has gone through an editorial review process

Databases are structured and allow you to find information more precisely

By setting limiters in databases, you can specify "scholarly journal" and "full-text"

Where can you find databases? On the library's homepage @Database Vendors

Find the following databases through the Database Vendors link on the top page of the Ketchikan Campus Library's web page.  They're the most helpful databases for your English 111 class:

EBSCOhost Databases (you can search multiple databases at the same time; remember to limit to full-text and to peer-reviewed articles):

    • Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.

    • Humanities Full Text includes many of the most important journal in the humanities, including the full text of more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995.

JSTOR is a database made up of articles from more than a 30,000 journals, all of them scholarly.  Nearly all of the content is full-text.  Click on "Advanced Search" and build your search terms, one or two keywords in each box.