Using Databases to Find Articles
You can search two databases at the same time. Find one of those listed below, select Choose Databases at the top, and then add other database, . Enter your keywords in the search boxes.
- MLA International Bibliography
Scholarly articles, ebooks, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies in literature and linguistics.
- Academic Search Premier
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Includes articles from scholarly journals and popular magazines covering a wide variety of disciplines with the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Access full fext:
Click on UConn Full Text to open up a window. Click on the title in blue of full text source.
If "No full text available," click on Request this article through Interlibrary Services.
Sign in with your NetID.
Save search results:
Add items to your folder
Access folder (at top of page), select all and click on Export
Send to RefWorks or other citation manager.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Access to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Example, from Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold)
"Retreating, to the breath, Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear."
“drear”
adj. poetic of dreary.
Click on dreary.
adj 3. sad, melancholy
