Search millions of articles from ProQuest's electronic collections, including a digital newspaper archive, thousands of academic journals, and popular magazines like Newsweek and Rolling Stone.
Search the full text of 400 journals in 20 disciplines including Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, Sociology, Ecology, Literature, Mathematics, Statistics, and Visual and Performing Arts.
Full-text articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, reference sources, primary documents, and selected websites.
Searching Databases For Scholarly Articles
Why Use Different Source Types?
Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journals
Scholarly Journals are written in an academic style by researchers who are experts in their field. These articles will give you detailed and in-depth research on a narrow topic.
Popular Magazines
Magazine cover popular interests and current events. These articles will give you a general overview of a topic and an idea of the public opinion on the issue.
Newspapers
Newspapers cover daily reporting and editorials. For topics about the Civil War it will be best to use historic articles written during the Civil War.
Limiting by Source Type
Limit results to scholarly journal articles in database searches by following the steps below.
First, search library databases.
Example: united states civil war AND (women OR female) AND (soldiers OR military)
(click on image to enlarge)
Next, limit your results to "peer-reviewed" articles
Note: this option is usually on the left or right-hand side of the result list. It may look like either of the following images (click to enlarge).
TIP
Can't Find the Full Text of a Book or Article?
Note down the author, name of book OR title of article, name of the magazine, journal or newspaper, and date of publication
Make an Interlibrary Loan Request using the following link so that the book can be sent to Green River's Holman Library for you to borrow: (NOTE: this process may take one week)
