InfoGuides: Diversity in the Deaf Community: Scholarly Article Databases

Finding Scholarly Articles

The image is a journal cover entitled (white font) Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. It has a blue background and a spiked gold image The library has many databases that have scholarly articles. However, there are a few core journals that publish the most articles related to deaf diversity issues.

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
Journal of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association (JADARA)
American Annals of the Deaf
Deafness & Education International,
Deaf Worlds
Sign Language Studies
Volta Review
Deaf Studies Digital Journal

Check out this Deaf Multicultural Annotated Bibliographies for more information on diverse Deaf groups.

You can search within the journal to retrieve articles or use the databases below. Use the A-Z Journal List to find journal print and online holdings. If you are interested in demographics information, check out this guide that breaks down Deaf statistics by ethnicity.

If you have a citation, try the Citation LInker to locate materials.

Tip: Check the bibliography or references at the end of articles to find more works.You must access the databases through the library website. If you go to Google and find an article you like and it asks you to pay for it, DO NOT pay for it. It is probably in our databases or you can get the article for free through our interlibrary loan services.

Start With These Databases

Academic Search Elite
Multi-disciplinary database of articles from scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters, and newspapers.
Project MUSE
Full-text access to over 600 high quality, peer reviewed journals from leading scholarly publishers primarily in the humanities and social sciences. We subscribe to the premium collection.
Research Library
Research Library searches a diverse and respected mix of scientific journals, trade journals, and general journals covering more than 150 academic disciplines.

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Other Relevant Databases

JSTOR
Features full-text articles (backfiles) of more than 2,800 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Access includes content from the primary sources collections, multidisciplinary collections, and discipline specific collections. JSTOR also features multimedia content and includes Artstor, a cross-disciplinary collection of over 2 million images for use in research and teaching.
SAGE Journals Online
Search SAGE journal articles.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
Springer Nature Link
Full-text database of journals and books published by Springer, covering the sciences, technology, computer science and medicine
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Our subscription provides access to over 1500 journals. Electronic books are not part of our subscription.