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FYS100H. American Comedy: Race, Gender, and Politics.: Finding Materials

Library Databases

Library Databases.

  • Academic Search Complete   Use Advanced search to combine terms.  Do a quick search and look for useful subject terms. 
  • JSTOR  Covers the fulltext of more than 2,000 journals.  Does not include most recent years.
  • LexisNexis   Newspapers and other publications, generally not academic journals. Can search within results.
  • Project Muse   Full text access to more than 400 scholarly journals.  Can use phrase seaching (with quotes).
  • ProQuest   Newspapers and similar sources 
  • List of Library databases (A-Z)  A list of all the library's databases.

Internet Resources

Google Scholar  From the "More" dropdown menu, there are links to Advanced Search and Library Links.  You can configure Google Scholar to include results from our library databases.

YouTube  Video and audio clips of many comedians.

Google Books  Snippet, preview, or full access may be available.

Other search engines may produce different results.