Article Databases
Search an article database to find citations (title, author, title of journal, date, page numbers) for articles on a particular topic. The Library gives you access to over 200 article databases covering different disciplines.
1. Think about which academic disciplines might write about your topic. Examples: literature, film, anthropology, history...
2. Find the appropriate article database by subject (academic discipline or department). Look for "Recommended" databases.
Library home > Articles > Article Databases by Subject
Searching multiple article databases relating to Media Studies
Library home > Articles > General Article Databases > Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is an interdisciplinary database (covers all disciplines)
illegal or undocumented (keywords)
immigra* (keywords)
media or news* (keywords)
type or if you need it between two terms
click on academic journals in the left column to limit to peer-reviewed journals
add more databases!
click on choose databases (at the top)
select Communications Abstracts, Film & Television Index, then OK
finally, try using official subject terms:
illegal or undocumented (keywords)
immigra* (keywords)
media or news* (subject terms)
Searching Social Science Article Databases
To find individual social science databases, start with the Library home > Articles > Article Databases by Subject > (name of specific discipline, such as Sociology or Psychology)
To search multiple social science databases simultaneously, try ProQuest Social Sciences which searches 22 databases simultaneously. Click on "22 databases" at the top of the page to add or subtract databases.
facebook (all fields + text)
identit* (all fields + text)
narrow down results by using official terms (NOTE: each of the 22 databases uses their own list of official terms, so a term that is a subject term in one is not necessarily a subject term in another!)
facebook (all fields + text)
identit* (subject heading (all))
narrow down by format:
on the right, click on Source type: scholarly journals
notice you can narrow by a variety of other factors (language, person's name, company name, etc.)
UC-eLinks - Find Article Text/Location
Once you've searched a database to find articles, you may need to use 
to link to a PDF or html file if the full text is not immediately available. Each database is a bit different, but a good rule of thumb is this: when you see the Uc-eLinks icon click on it to view your article access options, which can range from full text to a call number to an Interlibrary Loan request:
For more information, here's a tutorial on using UC-eLinks.
Search Results
- click on the title to see full record (including abstracts and descriptors)
- to limit by publication type (peer-reviewed journals, conferences, books, etc.) click on the appropriate tab or link
- if necessary,look for other limits (latest update, journal articles only, english only) and more advanced searches
- select records to save to your personalized list; lists may be e-mailed, downloaded, printed
About JSTOR!
Library home > Articles > General Article Databases > JSTOR
Everyone Loves JSTOR:
- interdisciplinary
- scholarly
- full text available AND searchable - you may find topics you won't find elsewhere because they're only part of an article on a related topic
- covers journals from their earliest publication dates
CAUTIONS:
- DOES NOT INCLUDE THE LAST 3-5 YEARS of a journal! not good for contemporary topics!
- doesn't include as many journals in a particular discipline as the discipline-specific database (example: MLA Bibliography for literature)