Where can I get scholarly articles on American History?

Answered By: Kathryn Park

Last Updated: Dec 09, 2017 Views: 112

The best places to find academic, scholarly or peer reviewed articles are in Gale Academic OneFile, JSTOR and ProQuest One Community College. All of these databases cover multiple topics and results can be limited to scholarly journals. Login with your COM account for off campus access. Here's how:

Gale Academic OneFile

The result list defaults to Academic Journal articles in Academic OneFile. You can limit further to peer reviewed articles. Here's how:

Perform a search on your topic.
Under Limit Search by, select the Peer Reviewed Journals.
All your results will now be peer reviewed.

JSTOR

All the content in JSTOR is considered scholarly so you can search as you normally would. JSTOR does include content other than articles, such as primary sources, images reports and open content in the results, however. To take these out your results:

Under Refine Results, find Academic Content
Select Journals
You should be left with scholarly articles.

ProQuest One Community College

Perform a search on your topic.
Select Scholarly Journals from the Source type options on the right side of your result list
All your results will now be from scholarly journals.
If you also want the article's to be peer reviewed, click on the Peer reviewed menu above Source type and select Peer reviewed.

Here are some links to more detailed information:

Did you know? Our databases provide citations!

How you get them varies for each platform, but it's easy once you know how. Go to the Grab a Citation page in the Cite APA Style and Cite MLA Style guides to get step by step instructions with screen shots.