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BMS201H1: Information Literacy, Research, and Writing for Book & Media Studies

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Article Databases

 

Search LibrarySearch

Known as LibrarySearch, this interdisciplinary database is UofT's largest--and your best bet when more focused databases let you down. It combs through more than 1,200 databases, journal packages, e-book collections, and other resources ranging from the sciences to the social sciences and humanities. At its best, LibrarySearch finds relevant results you won't find elsewhere; at its worst, however, LibrarySearch can overwhelm you will a mish-mash of results from different subject areas.

 

Everything Search

Advanced Search

A Few Key Subject-Specific Databases

Film & Television Literature Index

Communication Abstracts

America: History & Life

Historical Abstracts

The MLA is the major English literature database. It covers criticism related to literature, linguistics and folklore from 1921 to the present, and contains more than 1-million citations to journal articles, series, books, working papers and conference proceedings. Most of the materials indexed before 1963 are American.

Sociological Abstracts

Gender Studies Database

Catalogue Search


 



Advanced Search

Additional Databases


General Databases

Scholars Portal Journals

Google Scholar

A Few More Subject Databases

Criminology

Criminal Justice Abstracts

Geography

Geobase

Health & Medicine

Medline

Political Science

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Psychology

PsycInfo

Religion

Over one million bibliographic citations to journal articles, essays in books, and book reviews in the field of religion. Covers all aspects of the major world religions and now includes all the content of the online Catholic Periodical and Literature Index.

Finding Books In Print

Reading & Argument


Argument & Evidence: An Introduction




Drag & Drop Reading Practice

Glossary

Read the first few paragraphs of a scholarly journal article to identify several features common to scholarly articles. Please review this brief glossary before starting.



Mark-the-Words Reading Practice

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