LibGuides: ENGL 1050: Argumentative Writing and Critical Thinking: Scholarly Articles

Useful Databases for Literary Criticism

Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Gale Literature including Resource Center, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism and LitFinder. The database brings together these literary databases allowing searching across these resources.
- Contemporary Authors Online
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Literature Criticism Online
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Offers interdisciplinary content including approximately 2,600 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials.
On occasions, you may encounter problems opening PDFs. The reason for this to happen is most likely due to the time out error. This could be due to a slow internet connection or a large download size. Many times, articles with images contained in them will time out the download.
To resolve this, right click on the link "Proceed to PDF" and select "Save Target As..." (or "Save Link as..." for Firefox). This will allow you to save the PDF to your computer and should allow for a faster, more successful download.
If the problem persists, check the PDF Help Page at JSTOR
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Provide access to full-text scholarly journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences with over 120 publishers currently participating.
View the List of Journals Covered

Useful Databses for Controversal Issue Research

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Offers original articles on current events and public affairs.
Your complete source on the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, all the pros and cons, bibliographies and more.
Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Contains contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the database features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

Other Great Databases

Statista Pro This link opens in a new window
Statista is a statistics portal that provides statistics and data on over 1 million statistics and facts from more than 10,000 different sources including agriculture, advertising, health, hospitality, consumer goods, and much more. The content is geared towards business and marketing statistical needs, with a focus on current statistics.
Humanities Full-Text This link opens in a new window
Art, film, music, world literature, philosophy, religion, and more - about 400 English-language periodicals.
1995 to date. Updated monthly.

Best Bets for Scholarly Articles in the Humanities

Library OneSearch
Easiest way to search most of the library's literature/articles holdings at once. Great for when you don't know your topic and want to get started on research and see what's out there.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Offers interdisciplinary content including approximately 2,600 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials.
On occasions, you may encounter problems opening PDFs. The reason for this to happen is most likely due to the time out error. This could be due to a slow internet connection or a large download size. Many times, articles with images contained in them will time out the download.
To resolve this, right click on the link "Proceed to PDF" and select "Save Target As..." (or "Save Link as..." for Firefox). This will allow you to save the PDF to your computer and should allow for a faster, more successful download.
If the problem persists, check the PDF Help Page at JSTOR
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides over 20,000 indexed and abstracted journals including 6,600 full-text journals and magazines, nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content dating back to 1887.
To see which titles are available in full-text, as well as the names of all titles indexed and abstracted, check the EBSCOhost Database Coverage List and Title List by Subject . Updated daily.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. If you use the Google Scholar link on this page, your journal search results will be linked to collections in Cal State LA.
If you enter a book title, the citation includes a Library Search link which will tell you if the book is available at CSULA or other local libraries. Please Note: When you use this Google Scholar link from off-campus, you will need to enter your MYCSULA Identity Account user name and password.
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ENGL 1050: Argumentative Writing and Critical Thinking

Useful Databases for Literary Criticism

Useful Databses for Controversal Issue Research

Other Great Databases

Best Bets for Scholarly Articles in the Humanities