Library Guides: PORT 6160/4160: Escritoras negras brasileiras: Find Scholarly Articles

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This section highlights some of the best databases for locating scholarly articles for the case study project. No two databases will have the same journal contents and search terms and algorithms, so it's important to test and compare more than one.

Pro tip: Can't find full-text access to a known article you're looking for? Try these two steps:

Search the article title in "" in Library Search to see if TU Libraries provides full text access.
Search the article title in "" in Google to see if you can locate a PDF. If that fails:
Request the article through Interlibrary Loan. You'll receive a PDF scan within a few days.

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MLA International Bibliography
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The leading international index of journals, books, dissertations, and more on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Dialnet
Created and hosted by the Universidad de La Rioja, Dialnet contains citations and some full text access for over 10,000 scholarly journals from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Also included are over 6 million monographs, doctoral theses, proceedings, and other documents.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). It is particularly useful for locating scholarship produced outside the United States.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and preprint archives. When off campus, sign-in with your Tulane user name and password to activate TU Link and check for holdings accessible via Tulane.
HAPI Online
Your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the US-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US. Contains bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
JSTOR Advanced Search
A trusted archive of scholarly journals, primary sources, and books. Content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The most recent 3-5 years of journals are generally not available; this is known as a "moving wall."

TU Library Search: Articles
Provides access to most journals and databases to which Tulane Libraries subscribe. Will also show results for articles that you can request through Interlibrary Loan. Use the RESOURCE TYPE filters to limit your search to journal articles and journals. Use REFINE YOUR SEARCH to limit your results to Peer-Reviewed results.

SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
Model Open Access portal to full-text journals and books published in most countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Portugal and Spain.