Research Guides: ENG 112 Fleggas-Literature Review Assignment: Databases for Journal Articles and Videos

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ProQuest Central (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
JSTOR (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Offers scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
CQ Researcher (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Reports on issues shaping our world, with in-depth coverage of political and social issues, such as health, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
SIRS Researcher (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
SIRS Issues Researcher is an editorially curated pro/con database providing a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources.
NoveList Plus, (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Readers’ advisory resource covering fiction, nonfiction, and audiobook recommendations.
Literature Resource Center (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.
ProQuest Learning: Literature (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Full-text works of poetry, prose and drama, and secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and interviews. Designed with schools and public libraries in mind.
Bloom's Literature (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Bloom's Literature Reference Center examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

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