Research Guides: Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity: Articles

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Databases for Journal Articles

Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity is an interdisciplinary field. Subject areas may cross sociology, psychology, political science, and other areas of study. For a variety of approaches and perspectives on research and topics, try several different databases.

Where's the full article?

You have found the perfect article, now you want the full article.
Here's what you do:

1. Look for the link: PDF (or HTML) Full Text. This is the full article.

2. If there is no PDF for the article, look for the Find It at St. Kate's button. If we have the article in another database, you might be linked right to the article. Sometimes you will be linked to the journal, and you can navigate to the year, issue and page you need.

3. Unfortunately, sometimes the article will not be available in any St. Kate's resource. In that case, your best option is to request a digital scan of the article. Use the link provided.

Allow 3-5 days for electronic deliver of scanned articles. There is no charge to you for this service.

Databases for Journal Articles

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Great place to begin! Finds newspaper, academic and trade journals on a wide variety of subjects.
Covers 1975 to the present.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive social sciences database with strong coverage of sociology, anthropology, education, and social work
A comprehensive social sciences research database with full text for more than 1,700 journals dating back to 1908. It also provides full text for more than 830 books and 14,000 conference papers. Subject indexing is based on a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
An index to publications about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. It indexes and abstracts more than 2,000 journals published worldwide. Book reviews, media reviews, and disserations are also indexed. Indexing began in 1954. This database is produced by ABC-CLIO, but you access it through EBSCO.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
The leading bibliography for the history of the world from 1450 to the present.
This resource excludes the history of United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 2,000 journals. Also includes book reviews and dissertations. Indexing coverage begins in 1954.

This database is produced by ABC-CLIO, but you access it through the EBSCO website.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles from scholarly journals in communication, mass media, and related fields.
This database offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 440 journals in communication and mass media, selective coverage of nearly 200 additional journals, and full text for more than 500 journals. Many of the more important journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues (dating as far back as 1915) to the present.

Special features include a Communication Thesaurus, searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals, and profiles providing biographical and bibliographical data for of more than 3,000 authors in the field.

The database incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
U.S. Newsstream - Proquest This link opens in a new window
Recent U.S. news content, as well as archives back to the 1980's. Includes newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in full-text. Access to major national papers such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. Large collection of local and regional newspapers.

Critical Studies - More databases to try

PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes publications about public policy and social issues from 120 countries
Database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Indexes periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries. Coverage begins in 1915.
PTSDpubs This link opens in a new window
This database, formerly called PILOTS, provides citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other psychological effects of trauma. Produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD.
PTSDpubs is an index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Covers topics such as the assessment, description, prevention, and treatment of PTSD; issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations; and more. Coverage begins in 1871.
PsycInfo & PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
The premier database for psychology research, the online version of Psychological Abstracts; includes PsycARTICLES full text journals.
PsycINFO indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles, books, dissertations, and other publications. PsycARTICLES provides the full text of more than 90 journals published by the American Psychological Association. Besides psychology, this database also covers psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage begins in 1806.
Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000 This link opens in a new window
An online archive of primary sources related to women's activism in the U.S.
This resource brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An archive of scholarly full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. Subject areas include the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

JSTOR includes various collections, and the St. Kate's Library has purchased the Arts and Sciences Collections I-VII and the Biological Sciences Collection. These collections include subsets for ecology & botany, language & literature, and music.

JSTOR's agreements with publishers often include a "moving wall," which means that the most recent years (typically 3-5 years) are not available.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 This link opens in a new window
A subject index covering nearly a century (1890-1982) of more than 500 popular periodicals and magazines.