Instruction & Engagement Librarian
Suggested Library Databases for Composition Research
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)Indexing and full text of articles for array of scholarly and popular topics. Provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, science, cultural studies, education, and much more.
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) (1926+)Indexes critical literary and language scholarship in journals and serials published worldwide.
- JSTORFull text of research journals and eBooks from numerous publishers. For most of the journal content, we can access all but the 3 to 5 most recent years of the journal.
- CompPileAn inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse studies.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966+)ERIC is the most complete index to articles and reports on educational topics.
- PrimoSearch This link opens in a new windowPrimoSearch combines search results from all of UCF's subscriptions to ProQuest databases, most of our online journals, and many databases from other vendors.
The previous discovery service QuickSearch from EBSCOhost ceased access at UCF at the end of September 2021. Please update all links to Primo.
Using the Library Databases
The best way to locate articles on a specific topic is to use the library databases. You can use the Databases by Subject link to locate the suggested databases for your topic. The video below demonstrates how to use a subject database to locate articles.