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Library Databases
The library's databases are your source for scholarly and academic articles!
Bortz Library subscribes to dozens of academic research databases, covering a wide array of subject matter. These databases provide access to articles from academic journals, magazines, newspapers, and more.
Use the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) search box below to search through all of the library's databases at once, or click on the title of a particular database from the list below to search through just one database. Each database in the list has been included on this guide for its subject coverage and relevance.
Article Search
Subject-Specific Databases
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowProvides access to millions of bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, linguistics, literary criticism, and the dramatic arts. Incorporates the MLA thesaurus as well as the MLA's Directory of Periodicals. Recommended for English research.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.
- Baker Street Journal - 2006 - presentOnline access to the Baker Street Journal from MLA International Bibliography. "The Baker Street Journal continues to be the leading Sherlockian publication since its founding in 1946 by Edgar W. Smith."
Around the Web
In addition to using the library's databases to find scholarly (and popular) content, check out some of the free online resources listed below. Please note: these resources are not necessarily scholarly in nature.
- Sherlockian.netSherlock Holmes on the Web: The Web Portal about the Great Detective
- How Sydney Paget’s Illustrations Brought Sherlock to LifeSydney Paget was a British illustrator best known for drawings that accompanied Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
- The Sherlock Holmes Society of LondonA literary and social Society for study of the life and work of
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. - BBC One Sherlock PageInformation about the television program, with links to additional websites including Watson's Blog, and The Science of Deduction.