Finding Articles - HS 110 - Historical Studies: The Power of Boycotts

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What is a Scholarly Article?

Scholarly and peer-reviewed articles report on new research. They are published in discipline-specific academic journals in order to make such information available to other scholars and academics.

Scholarly journals are authored by academics, geared to a specific audience and usually published by organizations with an academic focus.
Authors are typically experts or scholars in their field. The author's credentials and affiliations are usually listed.
The language of scholarly journals is that of the discipline covered. It assumes subject matter knowledge on the part of the reader.
Scholarly articles always cite information sources using footnotes, endnotes, and/or bibliographies.
Scholarly articles are usually lengthy, and can include charts, graphs, and collected data.
A scholarly article may also be peer-reviewed; this type of article must be reviewed and approved for publication by a panel of experts in the field.

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Search Tips

Use the word "AND" to combine your keywords to make your search more specific, e.g. "substance abuse" AND "domestic violence."
Use synonyms and alternative or related terms - broader or narrower - to expand your relevant results, e.g. "teenagers" | "adolescents" | "youth"
Use the truncation "*" (star) symbol to search for words with common roots without entering them individually, e.g. searching for teen* retrieves "teen," "teens", "teenaged", "teenagers." Use the "star" symbol (hit "shift" key + 8) to add truncation to your search term.
You can limit search results in many databases to academic/peer-reviewed journals, by publication date, or full-text only.

Suggested Databases

Use these to continue research and target more resources specific to topics explored in this course.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window General database recommended for finding scholarly articles in most disciplines. Hosted on the EBSCOhost platform.
Duke University Press Journals Online This link opens in a new window Provides online access to the full text of 33 humanities and social science journals. Access goes back as far as 2000 in most cases; view the page for online availability for date ranges of specific journals.
GenderWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Publications focusing on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Coverage 1970-. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Hosted on the EBSCOhost platform.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984 (HW Wilson) (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high quality indexing going back as far as 1907. Hosted on the EBSCOhost platform.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary archive of scholarly journal literature. 1878 + Last several years not included.
Research Library (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window

Ethnic Newswatch Full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. Contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Women's Magazine Archive Backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.

Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window Non-fiction works by African-American leaders and others who have dealt substantially with issues of race in America. Includes books, essays, articles, speeches, letters, interviews, and other materials, some of which have not previously been published.

Newspaper databases

Newspapers are primary sources that are useful for finding contemporaneous information about events.

NOTE: Monmouth University has access to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal via their desktop platforms. You must have MU login credentials to set up your free account.

Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, full text collection of news articles from publications of the minority, ethnic, and native press. The database is searchable in both English and Spanish, covering 240 periodical titles in both languages.
Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Full text of U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and newswires.

New York Times Monmouth University has access to the New York Times via its desktop platform. You must have MU login credentials to access.

Google Scholar Search - Details & VIdeo

Search Google Scholar for scholarly full-text materials available in addition to those you locate in HawkFind. If there is a link to the right of any of your search results, follow the link to view the full article (you may not have access to all the articles in your search results). Check out the Google Search tips video (created by Concordia University) for additional help, and be sure to access Google Scholar from the Monmouth University website in order to view accessible articles.

HS 110 - Historical Studies: The Power of Boycotts

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