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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 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
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: Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new window
Find biographical information on more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments, and informative essays about their lives and work.
Gale Literature: LitFinder This link opens in a new window
Provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
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: Twayne's Author Series This link opens in a new window
Find in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This series features the content of more than 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors.
Gale Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
Literary criticisms, analysis, essays, scholarly and popular commentary from journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.
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."
Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
Provides a complete one-stop resource for information on social issues. Access controversial viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Tip: Click the Browse Issues link in the site navigation bar for an A-Z list of popular topics.
Overdrive This link opens in a new window
Provides access to popular and bestselling eBooks and eAudiobooks. Titles are automatically returned at the end of the loan period, and there are no late fees. Download the Libby app to access from your mobile device.