Using Electronic Indexes and Databases
Citations to scholarly journal articles may be located using the indexes listed to the right. A 'citation' is the information you will need to locate an article in a specific volume of a journal, including the author's name, the title of the the article, the title of the journal, the volume number, the issue number, and the page number(s) of the article. You may repeat the search string you used to locate books, adding key terms to narrow very broad searches.
To determine if the Kenyon Library owns a journal title listed in one of the databases or indexes search for the journal title in Consort.
Electronic Journal Databases
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JSTORJSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform. Each journal has a “moving wall,” defined as a time lag between the most current issue published and the content available on JSTOR. Most archival journals have moving walls of between three and five years, but publishers may elect walls anywhere from zero to 10 years.
Indexes and Databases
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full TextIBTD is an index to journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance. Since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. TRDC will continue indexing various titles for the database as well as coordinating international contributors. The database contains full text for more than 100 periodicals and 100 monographs.
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Art Index RetrospectiveProvides users access to over half a century of art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art. Content includes high-quality indexing of nearly 600 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed, and citations of over 25,000 book reviews.
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Readers' Guide AbstractsIndexes 300 popular general-interest periodicals, 1983-present.
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Readers' Guide RetrospectiveReaders' guide retrospective, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a database indexing 375 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. The database is limited in its coverage of the dance discipline.
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Academic Search CompleteAcademic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This resource contains more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition, Academic Search Complete offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
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WorldCatCatalog of library holdings throughout the country and world. Contains records for any type of materials: books, sound recordings, video recordings, manuscripts, etc. It is updated daily.
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LexisNexis AcademicNow known as Nexis Uni, this database provides legal, news, and business information from 15,000 of the best business, news, and legal sources available.
