LibGuides: Children's Literature Research Guide: Finding Articles

Finding Articles

The Library subscribes to online databases that provide access to full-text magazines, scholarly journals, newspaper articles, and eBooks. Since databases are subscriptions that contain copyrighted written materials, off-campus access is password protected. To search from home you will first need to log in using your MyVVC credentials. The following databases are suggested for Children's and YA Literature related research:

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database providing full-text articles for more than 6,600 magazines and scholarly journals, including full-text for nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed titles. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities.
After typing a search term, use the Select a Field option to refine your search:
Subject (searches subject terms within the database)
Abstract (searches terms within the article abstract)
All Text (search the entire article)
Under Limit your results check:
"Full-Text" for full-text articles only
"Scholarly Journals" for journal articles only
ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
(Education Resource Information Center) is a massive educational resource containing over 1.4 million records and links to more than 337,000 full-text documents.
Gale Books and Authors This link opens in a new window
'What do I read next?' Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.
Gale eBooks: Literature This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text reference works like Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, 2ed. and The Literary Theory Handbook.
Gale Literature: Book Review Index This link opens in a new window
This index includes more than 5.6 million book reviews, allowing users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.
Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new window
Biographical dictionary dedicated to literature, covers a wide variety of literary topics, periods, and genres, with a focus on American and British literature.
Gale Literature: Something About the Author This link opens in a new window
Provides access to all volumes in Gale's Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. Something About the Author includes both the main series and Something About the Author Autobiography Series, totaling more than 290 volumes, 20,000 entries, and nearly 30,000 images.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Contains the complete Gale series, Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography, "selected" full-text critical essays from various Gale literary criticism series (Contemporary, 1400-1800, 19th Century, 20th-Century, Shakespearean, Poetry, Drama, Short-Story, Childrens Literature), critical essays and reviews from over 360 literary journals and magazines, and more.
Tip: Click on the "Advanced Search" button to combine author, title, and keyword searches. To expand your search terms, change "Keyword" to "Entire Document."
JSTOR: Arts & Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
JSTOR All Access: The collections feature the full-text articles of more than 2,800 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Journals span continents and languages, with titles from 1,200 publishers from 57 countries. Collections include multi-discipline, discipline-specific, and region-based packages.
Salem Press Literature eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection focuses on an individual author's entire body of work, a single work of literature, or a literary theme. Edited and written by some of academe's most distinguished literary scholars, Critical Insights provide authoritative, in-depth scholarship suitable for students and teachers alike.