Research Guides: Human Rights: Databases (Articles)

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CAIRN
This open-access database includes fulltext to many French-language journals in the humanities and social sciences.

JSTOR
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. WSU has perpetual access to the Arts and Sciences I-XV, Hebrew Journals and Sustainability Collections. JSTOR invites you to explore an AI Interactive Research Tool in beta. Developed in collaboration with the academic community, this tool employs AI and other technologies to empower people to deepen and expand their research with JSTOR’s trusted corpus.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

MLA International Bibliography
MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY (online) is the largest and most comprehensive database covering current scholarship in the modern languages, literatures, and folklore. MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY (online) corresponds to the printed annual bibliography of the Modern Language Association.

PASCAL and FRANCIS Bibliographic Databases (-1972)
FRANCIS focuses on the human and social sciences and PASCAL has bibliographic references in science, technology, and medicine. This searchable archive of the two databases combined indexes articles through 1972. You will need to search Summon/Catalog for Wayne State's holdings of these journals. Many of the articles from these European academic journals will need to be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Persee
Open access articles in the sciences and humanities

Project Muse
A searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses.
ARTFL project, University of Chicago
Full-text retrieval databases of classical French writings, reference resources, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, periodicals, pamphlets, and ARTFL newsletters. Databases include literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises. Coverage starts with 12th century.

MLA Style Tools

Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide
This resource offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
MLA Reference Examples Handout
From the Wayne State University Libraries. May be printed and downloaded.
Sample Research Paper in MLA Style
Citation Style Chart
A handy side-by-side comparison of APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.
The Writer's Handbook: MLA Documentation Guide
The University of Wisconsin - Madison provides a quick resource for citing references in papers using the style outlined by the 2009 MLA Handbook.
Research and Documentation Online: Humanities
An online resource for using MLA style.
Citing Primary Sources: MLA
Library of Congress instructions for and examples of citations of primary source materials: Web Sites, Cartoons, Maps, Photographs, Films, and more.

Overall Strategy to get Books and Articles

Books:
       1. Search Title of Book in WSU's Catalog
                 - Print & E-Books
        2. Click on MeL button
                 - Request through MeL
                 - Start Over searching MeL by Title or Author
                           - there may be other records!
        3. ILLiad to Interlibrary Loan Books

Articles:
        1. Search Journal Title in WSU's Catalog
        2. Request this item
                 - click through from database citation
                 - use Citation Linker (under Resources)
             - Interlibrary Loan (login to ILLiad and fill in fields)

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