Research guides: HIS357H5: The European Renaissance: Finding Articles

Databases for Peer-reviewed Academic Journals

JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
☆ ABOUT RECENTLY PUBLISHED ISSUES OF JOURNALS (PAST 3-5 YEARS): In most cases, recently published issues of journals are not available through JSTOR. If you realize that access to particular articles via JSTOR is not available, use LibrarySearch to find them from a different platform.
Project MUSE
Project Muse provides full-text versions of scholarly journals from university presses and scholarly societies.
You have access to electronic journal articles, but not ebooks. If you need ebooks, check a specific title via LibrarySearch.
Cambridge Core
Oxford Academic | Journals
HeinOnline
This contains Law Journal Library (Database).
Scholars Portal Journals

Renaissance Quarterly (Journal)

Renaissance Quarterly

Connect Google Scholar and LibrarySearch

Google Scholar
★ Be mindful that Google Scholar retrieves information on not only books and peer-reviewed articles (Published Versions of Record and Accepted Author Manuscripts), but also pre-prints, conference proceedings, white papers, theses and dissertations and more.

★ When you want to use Google Scholar to find articles published by JSTOR, enter site:jstor.org with your keywords. If you want to search articles published by Project MUSE, enter site:muse.jhu.edu after your keywords. Similarly, if you want to find articles published by Cambridge Journals, enter site:cambridge.org after your keywords. Other examples include site:journals.sagepub.com and site:tandfonline.com

★ ★ ★ Ulrichsweb
Students are encouraged to visit Ulrichsweb to check whether the journal that they found is peer-reviewed. For 'peer reviewed' the site uses the term 'referred'.

How to configure Google Scholar to have it recognize you as a member of the UofT community

If you don't see Get full text when you are off-campus using Google Scholar, connect Google Scholar to our Library resources in order to read and download articles without paying unnecessary fees. Remember that the University of Toronto Libraries have already paid subscription fees for most of the articles.

To link Google Scholar to the University of Toronto Libraries, see the instruction below.