Welcome

Searching for Journal Articles:
Where, Why, How

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 2:30 – 3:00 pm

Lamont Library, Room B-30

 

 

 

Presenters:

Odile Harter, oharter@fas.harvard.edu

Ramona Islam, rlislam@fas.harvard.edu

Hugh Truslow, truslow@fas.harvard.edu

 Online version of this handout: http://guides.hcl.harvard.edu/searchingjournals

To delve further into any of the issues discussed at today’s session, you might want to take a look at Tools of the Trade: A Library Starter Kit for Harvard Freshmen

http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/toolkit/

 E-resource 101: common features of library databases

 Search screens: basic v. expanded

Search language: keywords v. subjects

Refine: options to modify & sort results

Read: Article previews & full-text links

Track: Ready-made citations & "list" or "folder" options

 In the disciplines: some major journal article databases in the social sciences and humanities

 MLA International Bibliography

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:mlabibli

Literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, from 1963 to the presentfor over 3,000 journals and series.

 

America: History & Life

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:amhislif

History of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, covering over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

EconLit

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:econlitx

The world's economic literature; coverage of over 600 journals as well as articles in collective volumes, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.

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Historical Abstracts

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:histabst

History of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada), from over 1800 journals published throughout the world.

Anthropology Plus

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:anthplus

Anthropology and related disciplines from the mid-19th century to the present: social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology and archaeology (particularly prehistoric archaeology).

 

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:woposcab

Political science and its related fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

Sociological Abstracts

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:sociofil

Sociology, social planning/policy, and related disciplines, from over 1800 journals, relevant dissertations, selected books and book chapters, and association papers, as well as citations for book reviews and other media.

PsycInfo

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:psycinfo

Professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines (psychiatry, education, linguistics, neurosciences, etc.) from over 1800 journals in more than 24 languages annually.

 

Art Full Text

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:artfullt

Art and architecture periodicals published throughout the world, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish.

Philosopher’s Index

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:philoind

Scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy, on research published since 1940 including over 680 journals from more than 50 countries with and a variety of languages.