Select at least one subject or multidisciplinary database related to your topic.
Search in DELCAT for books and articles on your topic
TIP: The easiest way to get back to articles you didn't download but have the citation for is to paste just the title into the DELCAT search box. You can then download the article or use the SHARE button to save a stable link to get back to it.
The library subscribes to hundreds of databases. You can see all of them on this page. Browse by subject area for additional databases on your topic.
Can also be searched as part Social Services Abstracts.
Journals in communication, mass media, and other closely related fields. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing and abstracts for over 570 journals, and selected (priority) coverage of nearly 200 more. Also includes full text for over 450 journals. (Coverage: 1915 --)
Citations, with abstracts, for a broad range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history and social work.
If researchers from many different fields may write about your topic, it's a good idea to search in a multidisciplinary database.
Full text of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
A collection of databases that can be searched individually or in various combinations. WoS indexs the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, as published in journals, conference proceedings, symposia, seminars, colloquia, and workshops across the globe.
Partial Open Access. Search engine specifically for scholarly publications. You can access the full-text of articles from open access and preprint publications, but you must be logged in to your UDel email account in order to access subscriptions provided by the UD Library.
Google Scholar is only one of many ways to identify and access scholarly publications. Consult the Databases page or the Electronic Journalspage for other possibilities.
Recent global news content, as well as archives. Content from newspapers, newswires and news sites in full-text format. Provides large collections of news from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Australia. (Coverage: 1980 --)
Citation management tool that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from webpages, databases, and other sources. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography.
For information about setting up your account and using RefWorks consult RefWorks @ the University of Delaware.