These are a few of the most popular article databases for English. For more resources, see the English Articles Databases page.
MLA International Bibliography (1926-Present)
The premier bibliography for literary scholarship published throughout the world. Does not contain full-text. Use the Find Text button and the Find it in FRANCIS link to find the full text in the library.
Essay and General Literature Index (1985-Present )
Index to essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Covers humanities and social sciences.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975-Present)
One of three databases included in Web of Science. It indexes scholarly journal articles in the arts and humanities. Good for tracing scholarship by using the Cited Reference search.
Project MUSE
Collection of electronic journals published by major university presses, especially journals in the humanities and social sciences. Good for finding recently published scholarship.
JSTOR
Digital archive of core scholarly journals in arts, humanities, general science and social sciences. Historical collection covering complete run of each journal from its inception to 1-5 years ago.
Good for finding older scholarship.
Expanded Academic Index
A multi-disciplinary magazine/journal article database. Contains reviews and some critical essays. Some full-text.