GSU Library Research Guides: HON 3750: The End of Art (Berry / Spring 2023): Finding Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed Articles

Search Hints

to search names as a phrase | ex: "walter cronkite"

as a wild card | ex: wom*n, Black*

AND between words to NARROW results | ex: "artificial intelligence" AND art

OR between words to EXPAND results | ex: "artificial intelligence" OR AI

Looking for Philosophy Articles?

Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database covering worldwide research in the major philosophy fields, produced by the Philosopher's Information Center, featuring author-written abstracts covering scholarly research, anthologies, and book reviews.
PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive index of philosophy books and articles offering unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums.
Religion & Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window
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Provides extensive coverage of world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Using "Advanced Search" in Databases

Most databases have an Advanced Search option, which will let you search using multiple terms at once. For example:

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A database's Advanced Search option will also let you limit your search in a number of ways, including:

Limit by year of publication (helpful if you need the most current scholarship/literature)
Limit to scholarly/peer-reviewed articles (this is often just a box you can check)
Limit by language (if you read a particular language or languages, you can select those; you can also limit your search to just items in English)

For example, here are some options that often appear in Advanced Search:

Different subject databases may have other options as well, but most of our databases have these as Advanced Search options.

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One box that you SHOULD NOT CHECK is the "Full Text" box. Sounds backwards, I know, but here's why:

Many databases will give you only the citation for a particular article and not the full text.

But! We have lots of databases, and the article that you need may be in a different database.

If you find an article that you want, and it looks like we don't have full text, click the blue "Find It @ GSU" button. That button will point you to the article if it's held in another database, or will help you set up an Interlibrary Loan for the article.

If you check the "Full Text" box in a database, you're actually saying that you only want articles which that particular database has available in "full text." You're shutting off that "Find It @ GSU" option.

General Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Complete provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals. The collection includes peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, and books, for STM research, the Social Sciences, Humanities, and other areas of academic studies. Also includes popular magazines and some trade publications.
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
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.

Subject-Article Databases

Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Anthropology Plus is the worlds most comprehensive index covering the fields of anthropology (social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research.)
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
APA PsycInfo is unmatched as a resource for locating scholarly research findings in psychology and related fields across a host of academic disciplines.
Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
A robust art research database providing full-text art journals and magazines, plus detailed indexing and abstracts. Direct Opt Out Link
ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
This database is the only specialist bibliography available for the study of modern and contemporary art. Covers all art forms. Full abstracts and indexing from the late 1960s on.
ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Provides extensive access to educational related literature. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. 1966 - current.
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.
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.
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.
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
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967 to Present only) This link opens in a new window
A music bibliography providing citations, abstracts, and subject indexing of essays, critical editions of music, digital media, dissertations, journal articles, monographs, reviews, and technical drawings of instruments.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracting of international publications in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Covers the core disciplines in women's studies and feminist research, covering publications from 1972 to the present. Supports curriculum

Check out the Databases by Subject option on the library's homepage to find databases that are useful for a particular subject area.