This library guide was designed by Gina Bastone, the English & Rhetoric Librarian, specifically for RHE 312: Writing in Digital Environments, taught by Hannah Hopkins.
Research Help
Below is a small selection of library databases and search tools that we will use when you visit the PCL. For journal articles: Try Academic Search Complete or JSTOR. For books/ebooks: Try the Library Catalog.
1865 - present. Unlimited users.
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.
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
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.
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
Given that your jump-start kits will require consulting journals and databases from a wide range of disciplines, you'll need to get familiar with other library guides.
Subject specialist librarians have created guides for most disciplines represented at UT. Below is a selection relevant to your topics, but if you can't find what you need, refer to the Guides by Subject page, or contact Gina for referrals and additional help.
Your instructor or subject librarian may throw around the term "library database" a lot, but what exactly do they mean? This video from RMIT University in Australia explains the term and how you can use databases for research. (Plus, the narrator has a great accent!)
Transcript available through YouTube.
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