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American Studies Databases

These databases are the best choices for finding information related to American Studies:

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary digital library consisting of digitized issues of academic journals, books, and primary sources. It provides full text searches of almost 2,000 journals.
New York Times Archive This link opens in a new window
"Over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared." Archival issues of the NYT from 1852 - 2002.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search™ Complete contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Journals on many topic areas, many in full-text.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present.

Finding a Journal Article

If you have a citation to an article or your instructor has told you to look in a particular journal, you have several different options to find the article. Most of the journals that the DiPietro Library subscribes to are available in our databases.

To search for a journal or article:

search by journal or article title using JournalFinder to see if the article/journal you are looking for is available in full-text in one of our databases;
search our catalog to see if it is available in paper (paper journals are shelved in title order on the lower level);
if it is not available in the DiPietro Library you can submit an Interlibrary Loan request via RavenRequest;
if you would like help finding the article contact a Reference Librarian for further assistance.