Research: WR 152: Mapping America in Word and Image: Scholarly Literature

Peer-Reviewed Articles

These databases provide articles that have been reviewed by scholars in the relevant field prior to publication. This is a form of oversight that, while not perfect, provides excellent quality control in scholarly discourse.

Please note: Some of these databases cover popular sources (books, book reviews, opinion pieces, etc.) as well as scholarly journals. When you search, you can limit your results to peer-reviewed articles.

America: History & Life
Covers the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to present times; indexes journal articles, book titles and chapters, reviews from numerous multilingual sources; all abstracts in English.
JSTOR
This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
Literature Online
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from worldwide publications: periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides digital access to scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. The scholarly content comes from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. The full text resources include journal articles, book reviews and book chapters.