STS.091: Capstone Seminar in STS Studies I

Finding Scholarly Articles

MIT Libraries subscribe to several relevant databases; some contain full text, others contain citations & abstracts only. You may want to search more than one to be most comprehensive. (See Locate Full Text for guidance in tracking down the documents you need.)

Don't limit yourself to the databases listed below! Many others in different disciplines (e.g., art, film, or music) might also be useful for your research. Use VERA (Virtual Electronic Resource Access) to find additional resources.

INDEXES & ABSTRACTS

HISTORY & OTHER DISCIPLINARY INDEXES

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/hist-scitech

• Citations to journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations.
• Abstracts are included in some records.
• Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science: 1975 to the present, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology: 1987 to the present.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/candmm

• Covers articles published 1920 - present
• Indexes hundreds of communication and media journals, with full-text for many articles.

America: History and Life (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/america

• Covers articles published 1964 - present
• Covers articles about the the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
• Citations and abstracts only but with links to some full-text.

MLA International Bibliography (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/mla

• Indexes over 4,000 journals in the fields of literature, linguistics, folklore, and cultural studies.

Anthropology Plus (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/anthro-plus

• Covers articles published late 19th century - present
• Covers articles in social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology; archaeology; folklore; material culture; and interdisciplinary studies.
• Citations and abstracts only but with links to some full-text.

Sociological Abstracts (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/socabs

• The standard bibliographic tool for sociology and related disciplines, provides abstracts of journal articles, citations to book reviews, abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Women's Studies International (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/wsi

• Includes over 232,000 records from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts.

GENERAL & INTERDISCIPLINARY INDEXES

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (part of Web of Science) (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/webofsci

• Covers articles published 1973 - present
• Cited reference searching retrieves papers that have referenced earlier works by a specific author

• An index to more than 400 periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature.
• Indexing from 1984-present; abstracts from 1994.

• Coverage: 1907-1984

PAIS International (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/pais

• An index to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters,and statistical directories about public affairs.
• Coverage: 1972-present

PAIS Archive (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/paisarc

• An index to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters,and statistical directories about public affairs.
• Coverage: 1915-1976

ProQuest Research Library (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/proquest

• Online access to thousands of journals, periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, and magazines covering a broad range of subject. Many are in full text.

FULL-TEXT ONLINE JOURNAL COLLECTIONS

AnthroSource (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/a-source

• An archive of 32 scholarly journals, newsletters, and bulletins published by the American Anthropological Association. These publications include current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/jstor

• Contains full-text of articles from Humanities and Social Sciences journals (usually not the most current)

Project Muse (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/muse

• Contains full-text of articles from Humanities and Social Sciences journals (only recent issues)

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