UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides: Urban Studies Research Resources: Articles & more

Core Databases

Urban Studies Databases in the UWM Libraries

U.S. History Databases in the UWM Libraries

CORE DATABASES TO START WITH

America: History & Life
America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch incorporates both current Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, providing a full-text collection of more than 2.5 million articles from over 330 titles, from 1959 to current. Ethnicities include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; Native People.

Public Administration Abstracts
Public Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Public Administration Review, Public Administration Quarterly, and International Journal of Public Administration.

Sociological Abstracts
The Sociological Abstracts database abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Urban Studies Abstracts
The bibliographic records in Urban Studies Abstracts bibliographic records cover urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline of urban studies.

JSTOR
JSTOR archives and provides access to archival and current issues of more than 2,400 scholarly journals plus ebooks across more than 60 academic disciplines. Select the HISTORY and/or URBAN STUDIES collections to focus your results.

Search@UW: Selecting Articles

Finding Articles in the Library

There are several possibilities for obtaining articles you have identified through searching:

Some databases will provide the “full text” of the article online.

If the full text is not available, click on the Get It link.

The menu may link to other library databases that provide the full text (click on the red "GO" button).

If not, click on the “Check for Call Numbers” link to see if the library has a print copy of the journal.

If the UWM Libraries does not have an article you need in either print or online format, request it through Interlibrary Loan.

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