InfoGuides: UWRT 150 Writing Seminar (Ide): Database Articles

Last Updated: Dec 20, 2024 3:49 PM

Finding Articles

RIT Libraries subscribes to more than 200 databases. These research databases are tremendous resources for locating articles from scholarly and peer-reviewed journals, newspapers (national and international publications), and magazines. Some databases contain image collections, ebooks, captioned streamed videos, statistics, patents, conference proceedings, and dissertations/theses. Search the Database Finder portal to explore further!

Opposing Viewpoints and SIRS databases have a special 2024 election section you can review. CQ Researcher has a report on our Media Landscape and how it affects political views. If you are interested in the Deaf perspective, check out the Center for Democracy in Deaf America. Another resource is SignVote.

Sample articles-Other key terms that can be used in future searches include “Other,” “Constructing Identity,” and “Identity Politics.” Selecting an identity or a political conflict to help narrow down the scope.

Is gender like ethnicity? The political representation of identity groups

Identity Politics and the Politics of Learning: Challenges to Teaching in a Culture of Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Multiple Truths

Critical Media Literacy: Televisual Representation of Underrepresented Groups

The rise and demand for identity-oriented media coverage

Gender, politics, news: a game of three sides

Rhetorical Strategies: For your search, you can use any of the strategy words, like ethos, pathos, etc., in combination with “speech,” “politics,” and “campaign.”

A Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of Trump and Biden's Climate Change Speeches: Framing Strategies in Politics

Use Summon to search all of our databases. Sample search: Trump AND Harris AND debate analysis

Summon This link opens in a new window
Summon is a discovery tool which searches across most of RIT's article databases.

Databases for politics and media articles

Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database of articles from scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters, and newspapers.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles on all aspects of speech, rhetoric, debate, broadcasting, and media studies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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.
Proquest Complete This link opens in a new window
All-in-one database that provides coverage for nearly all academic areas of study including arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences and current affairs.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Search SAGE journal articles.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text combines the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film with full text for more than 1,000 journals, including many of the leading publications in these fields. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and international in scope, the bibliography covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.

Current Events

CQ Researcher Online This link opens in a new window
Reporting & analysis of political & social issues, with topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology & the U.S. economy.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Full text viewpoint essays and articles on current social and political issues.
SIRS Issues Researcher This link opens in a new window
SIRS Knowledge Source (SKS) is an online interface that provides integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents, Internet resources and graphics from SIRS highly-acclaimed reference databases.