Finding Articles - History 10 - Model Parliament

History Databases

U.S. History in Context

Why look here?

Provides information on hundreds of the most significant events, people, and topics in U.S. History.

What's Included?

Authoritative reference content as well as full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, and audio files.

World History in Context

Why look here?

Provides information on hundreds of the most significant events, people, and topics in World History.

What's Included?

Authoritative reference content as well as full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, and audio files.

Tip: Use advanced searching to find articles about immigration policy and education in the U.S.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic OneFile
Why look here?
Academic Onefile is a comprehensive database that allows you to find peer-reviewed, full-text articles in many subject areas, including physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, theology, literature and more.
What's included?
It contains thousands of academic journals, the majority in full text HTML and PDF formats, and hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and and CBC.
Credo Reference
Why look here?
Credo is a good place to start research by searching for topics across hundreds of in-depth subject encyclopedias and handbooks. Other tools include definitions, pronunciation audio files, crossword solver, and image search.
What's included?
690+ highly-regarded titles alongside thousands of easily searchable images, audio files, and videos.
From off campus, you can access Credo by clicking the link on the Library
Lounge page of MyGann.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Why look here?
Updated daily, Expanded Academic ASAP is a comprehensive database that contains scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers across all academic disciplines, including the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology.
What's included?
Most of the content is peer-reviewed and in full text and includes images.
General OneFile
Why look here?
General OneFile is a large, multidisciplinary database that includes information across every subject area from a variety of publication types.
What's included?
Since this database has many different publication types, the Publication Search tool is very helpful in narrowing your search by publication format/date, subject, language and country of origin.

Global Issues in Context
Why search here?
This database provides access to academic sources on a wide range of topics.
What's included?
It features a mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

Google Scholar
Why look here?
Google Scholar searches across scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints and grey literature.
What's included?
There is typically an abstract for the article. Ask a librarian to request the full text of the article. Additionally, check out the Cited by link to find resources that utilized that one in their bibliography.
JSTOR
Why look here?
Full-text articles from 600 academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
From off campus, use the link in MyGann in Library Lounge to access JSTOR.
Proquest Research Library
From off campus, use the link in OnCampus in Library Lounge to access Proquest Research Library.
Why search here?
This database provides access to academic sources on a wide range of topics.
What's included?
It features a mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.