Things you can add to your searches to help databases understand you better:
A database brings together lots of information and makes it searchable. In libraries, a database can contain a collection of e-books or articles on general or specific topics. Searching in a database is similar to Googling something, but instead of searching the entire internet, you are searching that database's collection of articles.
This page focuses on using databases to find scholarly articles. In the academic world, an "article" is a long formal essay published in a journal. A journal is like a scholarly magazine on a specific topic. Like there are fashion, home decor, or cooking magazines, there are journals in history, chemistry, psychology, and other topics. Journals were traditionally printed physically, but nowadays they are mainly online and can be found in databases. A database may have access to hundreds of journals with thousands of articles each. You can search all of a database's articles at once by keyword, title, author, journal title, etc.
Learn more about how to search in databases below.
Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Covers Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre, and Cultural Studies.
The ultimate cross-disciplinary research tool, ProQuest Central brings together 30 of our most highly used databases to create the largest single academic research resource available today.
Research covering topics in sociology, social work, anthropology, and politics.
Sociological and social work research including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and more.
Contains abstracts of literature in the field of Psychology including journal articles, books, peer-reviewed journal articles, reports, and dissertations.
Bibliographic database for women’s studies and feminist research.