Databases - ENGL 1102 Mitchell - Pop Culture Spring 2024 - GSU Library Research Guides at Georgia State University

Starter Databases

These are big multi-disciplinary umbrella databases.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications. PDF content dates back to 1887.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Central brings together over 160 major subject areas, including thousands of full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports all together on a powerful, user-friendly platform.

Pop Culture Databases

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts. Selected coverage of nearly 200 journals, and full text from 500+ journals in communication & mass media. Direct Opt Out Link
Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts covering the entire spectrum of film and television studies, including scholarly and popular sources.
Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Formerly IIMP, Music Periodicals provides indexing and abstracting for international music periodicals and the full text for journals; subject coverage includes music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms, and composition
SIRS Issues Researcher This link opens in a new window
An editorially curated pro/con database. Leading Issues pages provide a framework for understanding and analyzing over 360 complex social issues with overviews, essential questions, viewpoints, and editorially selected primary and secondary sources.

Context Databases

APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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APA PsycInfo is unmatched as a resource for locating scholarly research findings in psychology and related fields across a host of academic disciplines.
Civil Rights Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Portal for searching and accessing historical materials from over 200 libraries, archives, and museums documenting the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The CRDL features a collection of more than 30 hours of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Provides in-depth coverage of subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives. Including: the family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. It offers an interdisciplinary journal archive across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
This database contains LGBT journals, relevant bibliographic data from NISC's Sexual Diversity Studies, an LGBT thesaurus, author supplied abstracts and keywords, and searchable cited references.
News & Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Full text of U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of several major U.S. and international newspapers such as The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The New York Times, and the Times of London.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000 This link opens in a new window
A resource for US and US women's history, specifically organized around the history of women in social movements in the US from 1600 - 2000.