HIST 89.001: Global Food History: Articles
E-Research and Subject Librarians by Discipline
The E-Research by Discipline page is where you can find discipline specific:
- databases
- subject research guides
- contact information for the Subject Librarian covering specific disciplines
Recomended Databases
- Food and Drink in HistoryPrimary source collection consisting of printed and manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government documents, marketing reports, films and illustrated content from around the globe documenting the evolution of food and drink within everyday life and the public sphere (1514-1980). Highlights of Module I include the cookbook collections from the University of California San Diego and Michigan State University, with a focus on Mexican, Latin American, Pacific Rim, Chinese early Californian, African and Asian cuisine.
- Google ScholarEnables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
- JSTORProvides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. UNC patrons have access to extensive retrospective holdings of hundreds of journals, starting with the first issues. Excludes the most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.
- Project MuseProvides access to important university press and other scholarly publisher e-journals mainly in the humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
- Proquest CentralA general reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
- WorldCatOCLC's WorldCat is the world's largest union catalog containing of millions bibliographic records for items in the collections of thousands of libraries from many countries. This database includes all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries in several hundred languages.
Effective Seaching Tips
*Keep track of what you find and where you found it.*
Once you've developed your research topic and have determined which database best suits your needs:
- Identify the key concepts and terms and combine them into a well-crafted search string
- Consider related terms
- Apply search strategies: quotation marks, Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT (in CAPS), asterisk and more...
- Use the ways that databases provide to filter your results: format, subject, date range of publication, peer-reviewed articles, and more
- Use useful tools offered by databases: citation, email, saving, printing, translation, and more..
- Need help? Ask a librarian.
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