Journals, Articles, and Databases

Popular Source Databases

Use these databases to find popular sources relevant to your topics.

MAS Ultra - School Edition This link opens in a new window
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this full-text database of popular magazines, reference books and primary sources covers many subjects, including history, science and health. It also includes and over a million photos, maps and flags.
Primary Search This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of more than 100 popular children's magazines for elementary school research, with abstracts for others. Magazines include Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World and Spider. Also includes easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection.
Gale in Context: Elementary This link opens in a new window
This database was developed for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a colorful, image-filled interface and explores a broad range of topics such as animals, arts, music, social studies, geography, literature and more.
Gale in Context: Middle School This link opens in a new window
Created specifically for middle school students, Research In Context combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, etc. . Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature...
Gale OneFile: High School Edition This link opens in a new window
Designed for high-school students and provides access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, and reference books on a range of topics from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.

Using Library Resources From Off Campus

This page will help you locate databases and journals with articles relevant to your research topics. Find journals below this box, scholarly databases to the right, and databases for popular sources to the left.

Journals

The library subscribes to many scholarly journals devoted to scholarship about folklore and fairy tales, and a small sampling of these is listed below. The online databases listed to the right will allow you to search through the contents of these journals (and many others), but browsing through an individual journal also gives you the opportunity for more specific topic research. Click on any of the links below to search within that publication for relevant articles or use the Library Publications search box to search for other journals.

Journal of American Folklore
A quarterly journal publishing scholarly articles, essays, notes, and commentaries on all areas of folklore and folk life. Although emphasis is given to American folk culture, materials on folklore from anywhere in the world are also selected. Occasional issues are devoted to a single theme. Includes reviews of books, exhibitions and events, sound recordings, film, and videotapes 1987-present.
New Directions in Folklore
A journal dedicated to scholarship applying folklore theories and methodologies to the study of contemporary culture.
Journal of Folklore Research
Presents articles of theoretical interest to folklore and ethnomusicology as international disciplines, as well as essays that address the fieldwork experience and the intellectual history of folklore.

Literary Databases

Use these databases to find scholarly sources for literary and background information about your research topics.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text articles to many journals and magazines, including peer-reviewed or scholarly titles. Academic Search Complete includes nearly every area of academic study such as the social sciences, natural science and more.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Access to more than 350 reference titles, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and atlases in all major subjects. Also, Credo Reference offers a visual map of research using their Concept Map in addition to other tools.
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, including coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences and the humanities.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive resource for up-to-date literary analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers and their works in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
Religion & Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window
The database provides full-text coverage of topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Salem Literature This link opens in a new window
Critical Insights - A series that distills the best of both classic and current literary criticism of the world’s most-studied literature. Each volume in the series focuses on an individual author’s entire body of work or on a single work of literature.
Critical Surveys - A series that offer extensive profiles of the major writers within a particular genre as well as sections devoted to elements such as genre overviews, award winners, and time lines.
Masterplots 4th Edition - Analyzes the most important works in all genres.