Locate books, articles and more in the Glendale College Libraries.
Peer-reviewed/academic articles in addition to newspaper, magazine, and trade journals from all subject areas.
ProQuest also includes "ProQuest Ebook Central" - an ebook database.
Includes full-text articles from academic journals, open research reports, Artstor images, and primary sources, supporting research and teaching across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
NEW for Fall 2023: Access has been expanded through the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection; all Artstor content has been migrated to the JSTOR platform.
See descriptions of all included JSTOR collections here.
See information about the new Artstor experience on JSTOR here.
Topics covered include archaeology, art, architecture, classics, economics, film studies, folklore, history, literary criticism, music and religion.
If you have a topic you would like to explore, you will want to develop keywords to search the library databases. You can create keywords by determining the main ideas in your research question or topic.
RESEARCH TOPIC EXAMPLE:
My claim is that non-violent protest in the US, learned from Gandhi, was an effective tool during the Montgomery bus boycott.
From my topic, I need to look at WHAT is important, WHO I'm talking about, and WHERE & WHEN it is happening. My keywords can be:
WHAT: non-violent protest and bus boycott ; WHO: civil rights organizers and protesters ; WHERE: Montgomery or Alabama ; WHEN: 1950s - 1960s or Civil Rights era
You can also check subject terms for each item:
2. For academic or scholarly articles, use the "peer-reviewed articles" filter under "Refine my results". This will remove any sources that are not academic and peer-reviewed from your results list.
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