Archer Library: English Literatures: Finding Articles

FAQs for Finding Articles

If you are unfamiliar with any word used in these pages, check out the "Glossary" tab or use the Ask Archer chat box.

Articles may be published in refereed journals (peer-reviewed), in newspapers or magazines, or in other periodicals or publications.

Quick Find is a good place to start looking for articles. Type in your search terms, and when you get your results list, select "Articles" from the tools on the left side of the page. Be sure to sign in to your library account in Quick find in order to see all results. (You can also select "Peer-Reviewed" if you are looking for scholarly or peer-reviewed articles.)

You can also do more targeted research for articles in individual databases. In the boxes below:

Scholarly databases are primarily literary databases, and have a lot of peer-reviewed articles.
Multidisciplinary databases include general databases that will include lots of non-literary articles (for example, history, health sciences, political studies, etc.).
Newspapers includes many major Canadian newspapers, with current and historical content.
Advanced has some databases that will be useful to anyone doing intensive research.

As always, if you have any trouble at any stage of your research, please use the Ask Archer chat box for instant help during Help Desk hours, or contact the English Liaison Librarian.

Scholarly Databases for English Literature

Artemis Literary Sources
Includes the MLA International Bibliography.
A resource for scholarly articles on English Literature, as well as more basic background information about literature.
JSTOR
Full text of backfiles of more than 1100 journals in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and education. Coverage is from volume 1 on, excluding latest 3-5 years.
More than 3 million of the images from Artstor are now available alongside JSTOR’s scholarly content.
Project Muse
Project MUSE offers access to full text of over 500 quality journal titles from 120 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others.

Multidisciplinary

Newspapers

Comprehensive Newspaper Databases:

Canadian Major Dailies
The full text database includes national and leading regional papers such as National Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal,Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader Post, Vancouver Sun, and the Victoria Times-Colonist.
ABI/INFORM Collection
Major source for academic journals, trade publications, market and industry research reports, company annual reports, dissertations, and working papers. Also contains country profiles and economic forecasts for most major economies.
CBCA Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
Includes many Canadian newspapers and reliable news sources.
CPIQ Canadian Periodicals (Gale OneFile)
An index to Canadian periodicals (English and French), plus full text for some publications; also includes selected sections of The Globe and Mail.

Specific newspapers and special topics:

Globe and Mail
Coverage: 1844 - 2018
Electronic full-page newspaper archive includes all the stories, plus images, advertisements, classifieds, political cartoons, births and deaths from more than 1.4 million pages of Canada's National Newspaper, dating back to the pre-confederation era.
Saskatchewan News Index
An index of stories published in Saskatchewan newspapers. Some of Saskatchewan's top news stories are available here in full-text.
Times Digital Archives
The Times Digital Archive is a fully searchable facsimile edition of the Times (London) covering 1785-2019. Users can search news articles, obituaries, advertising and classifieds.
Alternative Press Index
Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Includes selected abstracts from research journals.

Advanced

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ON CAMPUS ACCESS)
A&HCI provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,120 of the worlds leading arts and humanities journals. Part of the Web Science.