Searching for your topic? Use databases.
- America: History & LifeScholarly articles on history in the US and Canada, from prehistory to the present. This is a great database to search for American history topics.
Help using America: History & Life.
Help getting a permalink in America: History & Life.
Accessibility help - Historical AbstractsArticles in world history (excluding North America) from 1450 CE to present.
Help using Historical Abstracts.
Help getting a permalink in Historical Abstracts.
Accessibility help - JSTORUnlike most databases, JSTOR has plenty of content published before the 1990s, but it does not have full-text for the most recent 2-3 years. Articles in all subjects, but especially good for history, area studies, the arts and humanities, mathematics, environmental science, etc.
Help using JSTOR.
Help creating a permalink in JSTOR. - Academic Search CompleteScholarly and non-scholarly articles in all subjects.
Help using Academic Search Complete.
Help getting a permalink in Academic Search Complete.
EBSCOhost Accessibility Help - ProQuest Research LibraryScholarly and popular articles in all subjects. This is a great place to start your research.
Help using ProQuest Research Library.
Help creating a permalink in ProQuest Research Library.
Proquest Accessibility Help
What are scholarly/peer reviewed articles?
In scholarly/peer reviewed articles:
- Author is an expert in the subject
- Content is evaluated by other experts before publication
- All information sources are cited
Some databases have all scholarly material. Others have an option to search for only scholarly/peer-reviewed articles. The videos below will help you make sense of the differences between scholarly and peer-reviewed articles.
Need help with searching?
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Combine keywordsEntering your keywords by themselves is less effective than combining them with Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT, etc.) Here's how to do it.
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Citing Your SourcesA collection of web sites that will help you cite your sources (aka document your sources, make footnotes and bibliography.)
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Identify KeywordsShows you how to come up with keywords to search in library databases, the e-book catalog, even Google.
Know what article or journal you're looking for?
- Google ScholarYou now need to go into Settings to get SUNY Empire Library fulltext through Google Scholar. Please check out the Google Scholar how to for new instructions!Know the title of the article you're looking for? Use this tool to search for it (in quotes.) You can also use this tool to search for scholarly articles across multiple databases and in institutional repositories.
Help using Google Scholar.
- E-Journals A-ZKnow the name of the journal? This tool lets you enter the journal's title into the search box and shows you the databases that have articles from that journal.
