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ENG/WRI 223 - Games and Literature: Databases
Research guide for Dr. Leonard's class on library resources for the final project for the course
ENG/WRI 223
Ebooks
Databases
KU & Google Scholar
Permalinks
Open Access Journals for Gaming
OneSearch
The OneSearch is the library search algorithm that aggregates all the subscription, licensed databases together for you.
Research databases use keywords, not sentences (natural language)
Take a couple of minutes to write down synonyms for each of your keywords.
Use your most specific search first, and then broaden your search if you need to.
Popular Databases
A great place to start to look for databases is the
POPULAR DATABASES
page.
Under ARTICLES, check out:
Academic Search Ultimate
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Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 11,000 full-text periodicals.
ProQuest Research Library
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Research Library provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology with 2,600 active Research Library sources-- over 1,700 are available in full text. Over 1,600, in full image. Coverage 1971 to the present.
JSTOR
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JSTOR offers full-text journal coverage in the social sciences and humanities. Examples of disciplines covered are: history, economics, Asian studies, classics, archaeology. African, Latin American, Slavic, Middle Eastern studies, the literary cultures of many different countries. The lag time in publication ranges from 3 and 5 years. Updated in an ongoing basis.
All of these have scholaraly vetted articles for your to choose from. All three also include large collections of academic-level ebooks. The ebooks are listed also in the BOOKS, EBOOKS and MEDIA index, but all three databases have different search algorithms, so your results will look different in each one.
Some Tips:
Searching in the ARTICLES databases is by keyword, so it is based in conversational language rather than the controlled vocabulary in the Books, Ebooks, and Media interface. For example, you can search Storytelling in Video Games, rather than Transmedia Storytelling.
Use your most specific search first.
These databases will correct spelling errors, just like Google.
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