Question: What value lies in articles? Why, for example, would a researcher choose a journal article over a book?
Answer: Journal articles offer recent, in-depth research on a topic and frequently focus on very narrow topics.
Here are a few places to start looking for articles.
Depending on the topic you choose there are many other possible resources you could search. For example: if music is a defining or major aspect of your research you may want to search in some of our Music database. The last link in this list will take you to the list of databases organized by subject.
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Anthropology Plus [via EbscoHost] contains Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature into a single database. Anthropological Index covers scholarly literature. Anthropological Literature provides articles and essays.
JSTOR provides page images of ebooks, ebook chapters, and back issues of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to current publication. It also offers millions of high-quality ArtStor images, curated from leading museums and archives around the world.
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Project Muse provides access to full-text journals, ebooks, and ebook chapters from university presses. Temple does not have access to all available ebooks.
Use these resources to find newspaper articles from the United States and the rest of the world.