Research Guides: GSJ: Global Search for Justice: Resources for Researching Your Topic

Need Assistance?

Contact a Librarian

There are many ways a librarians can provide you with research assistance. We can help you at our research desk, via chat, text, email, phone or appointment. You can also contact the librarian for your subject area and work directly with them.

Visit our Help page for more information.

Library FAQs

Search for Articles, Books, and More!

Use Library Databases to Search for Articles

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
An all-purpose academic database that is a good starting point for many topics.
Covers 1975 to the present.
CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
An index of nursing journals and the primary journals from 17 allied health disciplines, including occupational therapy and physical therapy.
CINAHL indexes all major nursing periodicals published in English, as well as selected periodicals for health education, laboratory technology, occupational therapy, physical therapy and rehabilitation, radiology, respiratory therapy and social services in health care. Provides the full text of more than 1,300 journals, some with PDF backfiles to 1937. Indexing began in 1982.
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.
Education Database - Proquest This link opens in a new window
Provides more than 900 leading full-text journals in education and related fields
ProQuest Education Database covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. Coverage begins in 1988.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
An Internet search engine for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Our link to Google Scholar enables you to see which documents you can access through St. Kate's.
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.
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.
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.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Nearly 2,000 full-text journals, mostly from scientific, medical, and technical fields
Coverage begins in 1997 for most titles.
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.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Women's Studies International (WSI) covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research, including the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.
WSI combines ten files, including Women Studies Abstracts; Women's Studies Bibliography and Database; Women's Studies Database; Women Studies Librarian; MEDLINE Subset on Women; Women of Color and Southern Women; and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography for a total of over 400,000 records.

A-Z List of Databases

Access News Articles

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.
New York Times: 1980-current This link opens in a new window
Full text access via ProQuest Newspapers
Star Tribune: 1986-current (text only) This link opens in a new window
Full text access via ProQuest Newspapers. Most recent articles may be delayed up to 24 hours.

Minnesota Public Radio News
Sahan Journal
The only independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit digital newsroom dedicated to providing authentic news reporting for and about immigrants and refugees in Minnesota.

Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window
Alternative Press Index is a database of more than 368,000 journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Coverage, beginning in 1991, is both international and interdisciplinary.