Locating Articles from Citations
You should never pay money for articles when you are enrolled at SFCC. Let the library find them for free.
- InterLibrary LoanAllow 1 week to receive an article. There is no charge.
Search Google Scholar
Be sure to configure Scholar to search our libraries for full-text access. If the library has access to the full-text online, you will see "Get full text at SFCC" appear next to the citation.
*Remember Google Scholar results are not always full text or it may cost money to get the full text. Save money. Ask the SFCC librarians for help. Email them at ReferenceDesk.SFCC@sfcc.spokane.edu or call 509-533-3834 / 800-251-1972.
Literature Resources
Sampling of Literature Journal Titles
- Comparative Literature StudiesEssays of eminent critics, scholars, theorists, & literary historians. Ranges across traditions of Europe & North & South America, & examines the literary relations between East Asia & the West.
- Contemporary LiteratureContemporary Literature covers the whole range of critical practices, offering new perspectives in contemporary literary studies. CL features in-depth interviews with significant writers, broad-ranging articles written by leaders in the field, and book reviews of important critical studies.
- Papers on Language & LiteratureArticles, notes and book reviews on literary history, theory and interpretation and original material such as letters, journals and notebooks aimed at scholars and critics of language and literature.
- Early American LiteratureArticles and reviews on American literature through the early national period, about 1830, for members of the Modern Language Association.
- World Literature TodayArticles, essays and criticism on recent belles lettres in all the major and many of the minor languages of the world, short articles on contemporary writers and literary movements.
- Literary ReviewInternational contemporary writing, essays, poetry, drama, criticism and translations, and occasional special issues on a specific subject.
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How to do Literary Research: Library Databases and Search Tips
Start from the beginning to learn how to search ProQuest Learning: Literature and start watching at 5:25 to learn how to search for literary criticism/reviews/analysis in JSTOR.
Library Databases: Literature
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowComprehensive scholarly database with more than 7,000, full text, peer reviewed journals. Also contains magazine articles, trade publications, news items and multimedia resources.
- Gale Literature This link opens in a new windowDiscovery tool for searching a wide range of literature resources
- ProQuest Learning: Literature This link opens in a new windowMore than 180,000 full-text works of poetry, prose, and drama from around the world; as well as secondary sources such as author biographies and multimedia, as well as literary criticisms, essays, reviews, and interviews drawn from more than 100 full-text literary magazines and journals.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowDatabase of full-text academic journals, mostly older issues, from a variety of subject areas. Goes back hundreds of years.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowComprehensive scholarly database with more than 7,000, full text, peer reviewed journals. Also contains magazine articles, trade publications, news items and multimedia resources.
- Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new windowDigital Theatre+ provides streaming access to over 900 full-length productions, scripts, interviews, documentaries, masterclasses, lectures, study guides, workshop guides and encyclopedia entries
- Britannica Academic This link opens in a new windowComprehensive reference source including images, videos, articles from respected magazines an journals, and a guide to the best websites.
Library Database Search Tips
Click the box for FULL TEXT to get whole articles only.
Click the box for SCHOLARLY JOURNAL or PEER-REVIEWED to limit your results to scholarly articles. *not always an option, such as JSTOR, which only has scholarly content.
Library Database Usernames/Passwords are what you use to log on to a school computer
Example - Username: JohnD7386@bigfoot.spokane.edu Password: Your student ID #, unless you've changed it to something else.
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Look for a Specific Magazine or Journal
- eJournals Available at SFCC/SCCThis search functions allows you to search for specific journal titles. You can also search for all journals with psychology in the title by typing PSYCHOLOGY and hitting search.