What is a periodical?
Magazines, journals, and newspapers are all periodicals. Periodicals are issued on a periodic basis (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.). All periodicals contain articles in each issue.
Magazine articles are intended for a general audience of average reading ability.
Journal articles provide academic, professional, and technical research or review material in a specific field, and are written for an audience familiar with the subject and its vocabulary. Articles in these periodicals, especially peer-reviewed journals, are academically credible.
Whether you end up with an article in a print periodical or an article in a database, the easiest way to find an article on a given topic is to use the Electronic Databases to index both.
What are Electronic Databases?
Electronic databases are online sources that contain content from periodicals.
The NVCC library provides access to thousands of periodicals across 50+ databases. Topics of focus range from general to specific, and reflect the areas of study in courses offered at the college.
Bloom's Literature contains a wide range of reference essays and scholarly criticism examining great authors and their works throughout history, as well as full-length videos of classic plays and films. Bloom's Literature includes a Literary Classics eBook shelf containing the full contents of more than 1,000 classic works of literature, and also includes a Shakespeare Center which houses in one convenient location a treasure trove of content on all things Shakespeare.
The JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection contains all licensed JSTOR archival journals and primary sources content in a single collection, including Archive Journal Collections and thematic collections; specifically, it includes Arts & Sciences I – XV, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Jewish Studies, Life Sciences, Public Health, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability journal collections. It also contains four primary source collections, 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and Global Plants. This collection contains 2,877 high quality academic journals from across a wide range of disciplines and hundreds of thousands of primary source items.
Explore the most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. Includes analysis from book excerpts, periodicals, and more. Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism (1400-1800), 19th Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, 20th Century Literary Criticism.
Contains biographical essays that reflect extended coverage of the 2,500 most studied authors and include up-to-date lists of each author’s principal works and current secondary bibliographies. More than 8,500 writers of fiction, poetry, drama, and essays are featured. There are more than 400 comprehensive essays on specific literary genres, themes and settings round out the collection. A cross-referenced glossary of terms is also included to provide definitive explanations of more than 1,800 literary words and phrases.