Use journal articles when you need original research on a specific topic from a reliable source.<\/p>\n
Many academic journals are \u201cpeer-reviewed\u201d which means they have been checked by academic experts to make sure they are reliable. Scholarly journals take less time to publish than books, so they\u2019re often a good way to identify the latest thinking on a topic.<\/p>\n
We subscribe to a wide range journals relating to American Studies. To check if you have access to a specific e-journal, use the Find e-journals link below the main search box on the homepage of\u00a0LibrarySearch<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Or you can also use\u00a0LibrarySearch<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to check if we have a specific journal in print or online by typing the journal title into the main search box.<\/p>\n America: History and Life<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 Index of literature covering the history and culture of North America with over 1700 journals indexed from 1964 \u2013<\/p>\n European Views of the Americas<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Index of printed records about the Americas written in Europe 1493-1750<\/p>\n Periodicals Archive Online<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Access to the full runs of over 700 journals across key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences; the archive spans more than two centuries of content and multiple languages.<\/p>\n Web of Science<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 cross-disciplinary database that indexes over 8,000 journals.\u00a0 Very useful for comprehensive searching across a wide range of journals.<\/p>\n Arts Premium Collection<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>includes thousands of journals in the arts including art, design, humanities, music, performing arts and film.\u00a0 It also includes everything in:<\/p>\n Film Index International<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 provides in-depth indexing of over 125,000 films from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters and biographical information for over 800,000 personalities.<\/p>\n Screen Studies Collection<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 You can search all three databases at once or select which you want to search. Combined access to:<\/p>\n Political Science Database <\/a><\/strong>provides access to hundreds of leading political science, public policy, and international relations journals.<\/p>\n Literature Online<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>over 350,000 works of English, American and Canadian literature<\/p>\n MLA International Bibliography<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>an index with some full-text coverage for the study and teaching of language, literature, linguistics, writing studies, folklore, film, theatre, and other dramatic arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Use journal articles when you need original research on a specific topic from a reliable source. Many academic journals are \u201cpeer-reviewed\u201d which means they have … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Journal databases with an American studies topic focus<\/h2>\n
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