The most frequently-used databases
Scholarly journals, general interest magazines, and newspapers in almost all subject areas. Great starting point for searching secondary sources.
JSTOR is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources.
Note: If you receive an error message while using JSTOR, please try clearing all JSTOR cache and cookies and searching again. While accessing it from off campus, you may also find that JSTOR works better in a private or incognito window, or over Bowdoin's VPN.
This link opens in a new windowProvides one of the largest collections of news from Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction works that serve as a record of post-colonialism and demonstrate the vibrancy and resilience of African people.
Online version of the MLA Handbook, plus The MLA Guide to Digital Literacy and The MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature.
