{"id":16,"date":"2021-02-01T19:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2021-02-01T19:30:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:30:51","slug":"journal-articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/journal-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use journal articles when you need original research on a specific topic from a reliable source.<\/p>\n<p>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<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=cookie,ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=hia\">Historical Abstracts<\/a><\/strong>: material covering 1450- (excluding America)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/cpps.brepolis.net\/bmb\/search.cfm\">Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies<\/a><\/strong>(from Brepolis): Includes records from the International Medieval Bibliography, Bibliographie de civilisation m\u00e9di\u00e9vale and International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance covering European history from 300 to 1700.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/apps.brepolis.net\/LTool\/Entrance.aspx?w=19\">Bibliography of British and Irish History<\/a><\/strong> (hosted by Brepolis): Bibliographic data on British and Irish history and relations with the Empire and the Commonwealth, from 55 BC to the present.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/research\/conducting_research\/\">Bibliography of the History of Art<\/a><\/strong>(access via Getty Institute website).<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/pao?accountid=7408\">Periodicals Archive Online<\/a><\/strong>(from ProQuest): 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.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/theindex.princeton.edu\/\">Index of Medieval Art<\/a><\/strong>: Index to archive and images of medieval art.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=mzh\">MLA Bibliography (Modern Language Association)<\/a><\/strong>(from EBSCO): Modern Language Association index to material on languages, literatures and linguistics published since 1963.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=kah\">MLA Directory of Periodicals<\/a><\/strong>: Information on journals and book series within the scope of the MLA International Bibliography, including contact details, descriptions of scope, peer review, and submission guidelines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Annual Bibliography of English Language &amp; Literature (ABELL)<\/strong> &#8211; part of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/literature.proquest.com\">Literature Online<\/a><\/strong>: ABELL lists articles, books and reviews concerning English language and literature published worldwide from 1920 onwards.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.rtabst.org\/search\/\">Religious and theological abstracts<\/a><\/strong>: index to articles on theology and religion 1957-.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More generalist databases with good coverage of MEMS topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/www.webofknowledge.com\/\">Web of Science<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0includes 200 core history titles.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/zetoc.jisc.ac.uk\/\">Zetoc<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0gives access to over 36,000 journals and more than 59 million article citations.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/journalarchives.jisc.ac.uk\">Journal Archives<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0includes titles especially relevant for History of Science, but also has good general coverage.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/pao?accountid=7408\">Periodicals Archive Online<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0contains over 700 humanities journals comprising more than 3 million articles and 15 million article pages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use journal articles when you need original research on a specific topic from a reliable source. 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