You can efficiently search for journal articles on a topic using one or more of the databases in the following list. Some of these databases cover both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journals. See the tab above about peer-reviewed journals for help in determining if an online article is peer-reviewed or not.
Try searching more than one of these databases to discover the best resources for your topic.
GeoRef -- A comprehensive index to geology and related geosciences journals, technical reports and conference papers.
GreenFILE -- A database of mostly peer reviewed journals on topics related to environmental studies.
America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts -- These two databases cover historical scholarship, including archaeology. The America: History & Life database covers North American history and archaeology and Historical Abstracts covers the history and archaeology of the rest of the world.
ATLA Religion -- This database covers religion and theology for all the world's religions. It will be particularly useful for identifying sources related to the archaeology of the Middle East.
Web of Science -- An index of over 11,000 high quality journals in the sciences, social sciences and humanities; the journals covered are peer-reviewed journals. There is no full text in this database; you can obtain articles not available in the Knox Library by using our interlibrary loan service.
Academic Search Complete is a large database of mostly scholarly material. Some general interest magazines are covered as well. There is a good amount of full text in the database.
To search several databases at once click the "Choose Database" link found above the search boxes.
Then select the databases you want to search from the list.
Some databases allow you to limit your results to peer-reviewed journals. On the EbscoHost platform with databases such as Greenfile and Academic Search Complete, the limiting option can be applied after you get your results list -- it appears on the left and looks like this:
Limit your results by language. The results pages shows the language limiter on the left:
