A Guide to English: Searching for Articles

A good place to start research on most any subject. This multi-disciplinary database indexes nearly 8,050 publications and provides full text for nearly 4,600, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed journals. Access is provided by eLibraryMN (ELM).

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This database indexes scholarly articles, often with links to their PDFs online. (In cases where a PDF is not available online, a librarian can assist you with getting access to the article.) One handy feature of Google Scholar is that you can see other articles and books that cite an article you are browsing, thereby allowing you to "trace" a scholarly conversation forwards and backwards.