LibGuides: UGS 302: The Contested Past- Walthall: Find Articles

Find Articles on a Topic

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Keywords and Database Searching

For this assignment, you might need several types of sources:

Source Type	Start Here
Scholarly Articles	Library databases, see recommendations below, start with the Library search advanced search.
Background Information (definitions, short explanations of a topic)	Gale eBooks (for encyclopedias that were published and often written by experts) Wikipedia - as a jumping off point to other materials
Journalism/News	Specific news sites (like the Texas Tribune), Google, or the UT Libraries news databases (like Nexis Uni). Make sure to evaluate unfamiliar publications. Google Search Tips: Search only a specific site (ex: texastribune.org) or domain (ex: .edu or .gov) by typing in your search followed by site:.org, site:.gov (ex: I 35 site:texastribune.org) Search for an exact phrase by putting your search terms in quotation marks (ex: “Interstate Highway 35”)

Learn more about databases with the video in the right column.

See search examples on the second tab in this box, "Keywords and Database Searching"

Keyword tool
Use this tool to help you brainstorm keywords on your topic.

Searching databases is different than searching in Google. Distil what you're looking for into a few key terms or phrases

should the Elgin Marbles be returned to Greece

For each main concept, brainstorm a few synonyms and related terms that get at that concept:

The first key concept will likely be in common for everyone on this topic, but the second and third will be different, background information can help with determining what to search for.

Key Concepts

Elgin Marbles

Greece

Great Britain

Related Terms

Parthenon Frieze

Parthenon sculptures

Antiquities

stolen antiquities

Acropolis Museum

repatriation

British Museum

Combine key terms using AND and OR:
- AND narrows your search by looking for articles with all of the words (your two or three key concepts should be connected with AND, because you need all of them represented in useful articles).
- OR broadens your search by looking for articles with any of the words (synonyms and related terms should be separated by OR - they get at the same key concepts, so any of them are useful).
Try different combinations of your keywords to get better results as you search:

Databases

Multidisciplinary Databases

Articles & More Advanced Search
This is the advanced version of the library Articles & More search.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Find popular and scholarly articles from across disciplines.
Updated daily. A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Find mostly articles and books from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.
Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
Members of the public can read online up to three articles for free every two weeks from a large subset of JSTOR journals via the Register & Read program. This program allows remote access. Non-UT students, faculty and staff who need more articles can contact library staff for other access options.

For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide

Subject-Specific Databases

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Find scholarly articles and other materials in the discipline of history.
Updated regularly. Contains citations and abstracts of worldwide literature (excluding the United States and Canada) from approximately 2,100 journals and (since 1980) books and dissertations on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural and intellectual history and related areas of the social sciences and humanities. Covers history dating from 1450 to the present. The database corresponds to the print Historical Abstracts, which was produced by ABC-CLIO.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
1895 - present. Unlimited.
In addition to full-text journals, SocINDEX with Full Text contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. Includes indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources.

News

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Find news articles from the U.S. and around the world.
Updated continually. Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an interface that offers discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Effective January 1, 2018, Nexis Uni™ replaces LexisNexis Academic.
Daily Texan This link opens in a new window
Coverage varies. Unlimited.

Texas Tribune
Non-profit online only journalism focused on Texas.
Austin American Statesman - Post-1997
Newer Statesman articles - we have a couple of access options, but choose the Factiva link for the most up-to-date coverage.

Austin American Statesman (Historical) This link opens in a new window
1871 - 1980. Unlimited users.
Provides full text and full image articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article and every issue in PDF format. As the leading newspaper in the capital of Texas, the Historical Austin American Statesman provides researchers with unique insights into the political, economic, cultural, and social life of this important state, as well as the southwest U.S. from the late 19th through the 20th century. The paper has strong central Texas coverage, especially for political reporting.
More recent issues are available in LexisNexis Academic, Factiva and Library PressDisplay.

Background

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Most current edition. Unlimited users.
Updated regularly. A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files. A list of sources included in our subscription is available.
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide

Complete list of databases
Sort by type of database (like historical newspapers) or by subject (like Art and Art History) to find more useful databases.

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