Library Guides: ENGL 101: Introduction to Literature: Finding Books and Articles

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Useful Databases

The following databases are great places to find books and articles related to your topic.

LionSearch This link opens in a new window
Allows you to search all the libraries, books, articles, and other materials at once!

PSU Libraries Catalog
Search for books, videos, and other material in the libraries collection.

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
A great interdisciplinary databases covering most topics. It contains both scholarly and popular titles.
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Topic related to social media, the internet, or television/movies (for example)? Try this databases!
CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Another good database for news sources, along with business and legal resources.
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Covers many news sources for 20 years. Court cases and statutes from all federal and state jurisdictions are included. Most resources can be searched in full text.
Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Along with helping you pick a topic, Opposing Viewpoints can also provide you with full text of select popular magazine, scholarly sources, and news sources. Not every topic is contained in the database.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides research and background information on social issues. The database contains the essays from the Opposing Viewpoints series, supplemented by statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Keywords: hot topics, current events, social issues, social trends, English 15, CAS 100, background information, general interest, contemporary issues, overviews.
ProQuest (Multiple Databases) This link opens in a new window
Also covers most topics, with popular magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers.
Searches multiple ProQuest products, indexing 5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers. Keywords: news, New York Times, current events, contemporary issues, hot topics, English 15, CAS 100.
ProQuest - U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Find the full text of major national and regional newspapers - without the pay wall
US Newsstream enables users to search current U.S. news content going back to the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform.
Access World News (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to local and regional US newspapers. Allows you to search by state or community.
The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources -- all in one easy-to-search database with a world map. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Also includes limited streaming video.