Research Guides: ENG 250 Children's Literature: Find Articles

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Why use the databases?

Just doing a Google search probably won't be good enough for your research. The articles found through library databases are guaranteed to be scholarly, saving you the extra step of making sure your sources are valid. See our Library databases vs. Search Engines guide for more information.

Librarians' Top Picks

Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database containing journal, magazine and newspaper articles. (Full text)
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Searches across all these Gale resources at the same time: Gale Ebooks, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writer Series and Twayne’s Author Series.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital archive of full text core journals in humanities, social sciences and sciences. It contains the entire run of over 500 hundred important scholarly journals, from the first volume up to the volumes published 3-5 years ago. (Full text)
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film with full text for more than 1,000 journals. Covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations.

Additional Databases

Child Development & Adolescent Studies [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Child Development & Adolescent Studies, produced by NISC, is today’s source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed. More than 342,000 records are included with over 10,000 new records added each year.
Humanities International Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. (Full text)
MasterFILE Premier [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive general database includes journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering a wide variety of topics. (Full-text)
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides access to both scholarly journals and books covering literature, history and the social sciences. Database currently includes over 700 journals from 125 publishers and 70,000 books from more than 140 presses. (Full-text)