The library recommends the following databases for researching topics in the humanities:
Current CSUMB Students, Staff, and Faculty are welcome to check out Course Reserve items. For more information, click here.
Let's take a close look at the record and full text of an article from a humanities journal, and discuss some questions you might ask when evaluating the article's relevance to your project, including:
When you find information outside the context of the library, for example, from a Google search, what strategies do you use to decide if the information is reliable?
Please be careful with automatic citation formatters! They can be useful for creating a rough draft of a citation, but they very often make mistakes. To check that an automatically-generated citation is correctly formatted, you can consult the library's citation guides.
The APA citation for the Vaughn 2018 article we looked at earlier was automatically formatted using the citation tool in OneSearch. Can you find any mistakes?
Please use the contact info in the upper left of this guide to reach out for help any time you need it. I will look forward to continuing to work with you, and I wish you all the best for an engaging and successful research endeavor!