This guide will help you get started with your research for this class. If you have any questions or need help finding resources, please feel free to reach out to Lara Nicosia (lnicosia@library.rochester.edu) or Sarah Wood-Gagnon (swoodgagnon@library.rochester.edu)...they are happy to help!
Identifies articles on many subjects with some full text.
Includes full text from these databases, when available: General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Index to Legal periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Index, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts.
This multidisciplinary database is a great starting point for most topics. It provides full-text access to scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, as well as trade journals, magazines, news stories, and more.
JSTOR is a great starting place for most topics. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences, JSTOR provides access to a wide range of journals from history, area studies, anthropology, literature, film and media studies, and more.
Subject areas include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, statistics. The University of Rochester Libraries currently subscribes to the following multidisciplinary JSTOR Collections: Arts and Sciences I through XV. JSTOR also packages their content in disciplinary collections; however, the only ones of these that we have licensed are the Biological Sciences segment and the first of the Business collections. For alumni access, see also Alumni Library Gateway.
This database from the Modern Languages Association (MLA) focuses on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, and more. If you don't see the full-text for an article, click the red "FindText@UR" button to see if UR provides full-text access through another database (we often do!).
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. In addition to top newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, the database includes news wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, news sites, and more.
Popular database containing information on films, television, industry professionals. The open access version also contains some box office information.