Suggested Resources for Writing Studies

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Alternative Press Index		Bbibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Coverage begins in 1991.
	Alternative Press Watch		Full text from alternative and independent publications.
	American Factfinder		Data from 1990 and 2000 censuses, American Community Surveys, and Economic Census 1997
	CIOS (Communication Institute for Online Scholarship)		This database has citations from Communication Abstracts and other sources.
	Ethnic News Watch		Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses.
	Grants & Awards available to American Writers		NEW -- Database of domestic and foreign grants, awards, and residencies for use by American writers. ONCE USERS ARE AT THE DATABASE WEBPAGE, THEY MUST ENTER IN THE FOLLOWING TO LOGIN: E-mail address = umnd; Password = umnd2007
	JSTOR		Full text of over 100 periodicals from first issue. A tutorial is available
	LexisNexis Academic		Business, law, medical, news. A deep database for newspaper articles and reference information. Includes polling data.
	LLBA (Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts)		Index to citations and abstracts about the nature and use of language.
	MLA International Bibliography		Index to articles on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.
	New York Times (Historical Online Archive)		Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 to 2000. Includes digital images of every page from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review.
	NewsStand		Online access to over 250 national and international newspapers, including the New York Times and the LA Times. Provides access to older articles, not just the most recent ones.
	Oxford English Dictionary Online		The Oxford Engish Dictionary, containing more than 2.5 million quotations illustrates how words are used and their origins
	Project Muse		Arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics
	RefWorks		An online bibliographic management tool
	SAGE Premier		Coverage includes more than 125 SAGE journals, 40,000 articles, book reviews, and editorials, with original graphics and tables. Four key disciplines, including Communication Studies, Criminology, Political Science and International Relations, and Sociology. Articles on linguistics and writing can be found in the Communication Studies portion of the database.
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		U.S. and International library holdings

 

 

Web Sites

 

Research Guide for Information Design Students

Research Guide for Journalism Students

Research Guide for Linguistics Students

Research Guide for Professional Writing and Communication Students

 

Research Help

 

  

For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:

Kim Pittman, Reference & Instruction Librarian

Email:kpittman@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-7829

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