Research Guides: HIST 100: Soundscapes and Societies (Fall 2024): Finding Articles

Finding Articles

We'll use our sample searches for now:

("first world war" OR "world war I" OR "great war") AND (sound* OR noise)

(("Epic Tradition" or "Oral Tradition") AND sound*)

Articles in PRIMO
Main library catalog and search engine. Searches about 70% of our materials at once.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary database of journal articles (including peer reviewed), books, book chapters, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Coverage: 1887-present.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Includes Anthropological Literature (Harvard University) and Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute-UK). Index to journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries. Coverage: Late 19th century-present.

Example: Same search for ("first world war" OR "world war I" OR "great war") AND (sound* OR noise) in HIST databases

We will refine our search as we go.

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Covers all aspects of world history (excluding the US and Canada) since 1450. Includes journal articles, books, reviews, conference proceedings, dissertations, etc. published after 1954. About 250 History journals in this database are not findable in EBSCO's Academic Search database, making this the go-to database for finding world history articles.
America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Provides full text coverage of the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes nearly 200 journals and 100 books, selective indexing for over 1,700 journals, and abstracts in English of foreign language articles.