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Research Guides American Studies Scholarly Sources

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Provides historical and cultural coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from journals published worldwide. This full-text database is a resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It provides full text from a growing list of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies, videos, and primary source documents. GenderWatch is a comprehensive resource for gender and women's studies. It offers full articles on topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, healthcare, and the workplace.

Images of the full text of many scholarly titles in a range of subject areas, including literature, biological sciences, economics, finance, and statistics. Search the archive or pull up a specific article. Artstor is now available on the JSTOR platform. Provides abstracts and citations to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender literature published worldwide. Citations represent periodical articles, books, newspapers, newsletters, case studies, speeches, and other formats. Also includes full text for GLBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as numerous full text books.

See the "Find Articles" page to the left for more options. Call the Wilson Library front desk to get help by phone during open hours, or leave a voicemail for next-day follow-up. Use the web form to email us. We respond within 1 to 2 business days. Real people, no bots. All day and night, with help from librarians everywhere.

This guide is selective and intended as a point of departure for research in American Studies. This guide contains, largely, resources listed by disciplines (Literature, Music) or topics (contemporary language) of interest to American Studies. Resources listed by resource type (Newspapers, Archives/Manuscripts, Government Documents, etc.) are available via the Library Research Guide for History. Please feel free to email us with questions. We can make an appointment for you to come in, and we can talk at length about your project. Anna Assogba (assogba@fas.harvard.edu) Research Librarian and Liaison to Romance Languages and Literatures and to Religion, Lamont Library (With particular knowledge of Zotero and other citation management systems).

Fred Burchsted (burchst@fas.harvard.edu) Research Librarian and Liaison for American Studies, Widener Library. HOLLIS is the center of the Library ecosystem. This is often the best first step to see if we have something. In HOLLIS, click on "Online Access" or open the record and scroll down to the "Access Options" section. Check the HOLLIS section of this guide for more guidance. This is just a selection of some of the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary databases relevant to American Studies.

For a comprehensive list of databases in the many fields that comprise American Studies and Ethnicity, please view our complete list of Databases by Subject. Multidisciplinary databases are extremely useful for finding articles published in interdisciplinary journals or in journals outiside of the discipline of American history that may still be relevant to your research topic. In addition to containing journal articles, many of these database also provide citations for (or full-text access to) books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference proceedings, which allows you to cast a wider net in... Other Multidisciplinary (Point of view) Databases: American Quarterly -- the journal of the American Studies Association (ASA). It offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of American culture in research articles, book and exhibition reviews, and commentaries; also covers ASA's activities and conferences (Peer Reviewed)

This multidisciplinary resource contains access to scholarly journals, book reviews, magazine articles, newspaper articles, books, videos, and trade publications in English and a wide variety of other languages. Coverage: 1887-present Scholarly and popular publications on gender and the evolution of gender roles. Coverage: 1970-present. An index of scholarly articles and books. Look for the Find@UNM link to access the full-text articles in University Libraries subscription databases.

For books check the library catalog. Google Scholar will link to some--not all--of the online resources to which the University Libraries subscribes. Use the "Check full text @ UNM" link to see if the resource is available through a UNM subscription. It may also be helpful to look up the journal or citation through UNM eJournals tool. Multidisciplinary collection of citations and abstracts for scholarly journal articles, proceedings, data sets, and other resources. Has a tool for citation analysis.

Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, among others. Find biographies of over 19,000 deceased men and women who made significant contributions to building the United States. 1 simultaneous user. Image courtesy of LuaCheia72 on Flickr.com. Used under Creative Commons License. These databases contain a mix of citations and full text journal articles and books, with an emphasis on scholarly sources.

They represent some of the disciplines relevant to American Studies. Depending on the focus of your research, you may want to consult other databases listed on our full Databases list. Use the Subject filter there to browse the databases by discipline. Peer reviewed articles and book reviews of American and Canadian history, prehistory to present and searchable by historical time period. Scholarly journal articles and magazine articles in the fields of communications, mass media, journalism, television, film, radio, newspaper publishing, speech, broadcasting, and advertising. Full text newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority and Native presses.

Filter by ethnic group and language. If you know the disciplinary or topical area you're researching in, you can use these databases to hone in on scholarship in those areas. (That way you don't have to use narrowing facets or keywords to get at these frameworks in the broader databases--you can just use keywords related to your specific topic.) Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database indexes journals from 1964 to present and includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Citations to articles and book reviews in scholarly journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean, or those dealing with topics relating to Latin America, the Caribbean and Hispanic Americans.

Subject focus excludes pure and technical sciences. Links to full-text are available for selected journals. American Studies is very interdisciplinary, so you can do searching in broad databases and/or choose to narrow in on discipline- or topic-specific databases based on your particular research. These are some good bets for general and cross-disciplinary searching for scholarly articles. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

It is also very useful for seeing if other scholars have cited a book, article, etc. Search on the title, and then follow the "Cited by ..." link. Purdue University Libraries is a congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government information. Access to the government information collection is open to the public. In accordance with Purdue policies, all persons have equal access to Purdue University’s educational programs, services and activities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or ancestry, genetic information, marital status,...

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