LibGuides: SOC 291: International & Domestic Terrorism: Articles

Where Should I Begin?

Use the database links to the right to locate journal, magazine, and newspaper article citations on terrorism.

Research will be most successful if you can match your topic to the most appropriate journal article database.

It is also wise to search the singular and plural of your topic as well as variant word endings: "terrorist OR terrorists OR terrorism OR terror"

Image Source: Wilfredor. CC BY-SA 3.0. Wikimedia Commons.

Find Journal Articles

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary, scholarly and general article database; includes over 3,200 full-text titles. This is NOT the best database to check for scholarly sociological information, nevertheless, you may find good background information in here.
Biography Index Past and Present This link opens in a new window
Useful for finding biographical information on well-known criminals, terrorists, or officials. Covers over 3,000 periodicals and 2,000 books from 1984 to the present.
Besides biographies and autobiographies, you’ll find citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, and memoirs.
America: History & Life Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers American history. Useful for domestic terrorism. Journal articles.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers hundreds of world-wide journals in the field of criminology. Includes coverage of domestic and int'l terrorism, including counterterrorism, gov't policy, law/legislation, history.
Covers all related subjects, including forensic sciences, corrections, policing, criminal law and investigation.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service This link opens in a new window
Covers crime and criminal justice resources. Provides citations/abstracts to journal articles, research reports and government documents.
Topics covered include corrections, courts, crime, crime prevention, drugs, justice system, juvenile justice, law enforcement and victims.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers the social sciences, including domestic/int'l terrorism. Provides full-text articles and citations/abstracts.
Subjects covered include: anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology, sociology.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Covers the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Provides information on terrorism. Mostly citations/abstracts; some full-text.
Covers the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and more. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,200 periodicals in dozens of languages.
GPO This link opens in a new window
Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Covers 1976 to present.
Covers Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers world history. Useful for international terrorism. Journal articles.

Find Newspaper Articles

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Full-text of over 2,000 regional and international newspapers. Coverage from the mid-1990’s to the present.
New York Times | Current This link opens in a new window
NYT full-text 1980 - present. No charts, pictures or graphs.
Pictures, graphs, charts are not included. Includes the NYT Book Review from 1997 to the present, and the NYT Magazine from 1997 to the present.
New York Times | Historical This link opens in a new window
NYT PDF full-text from 1851 to four years prior to the current year.
Wall Street Journal | Current This link opens in a new window
WSJ full-text. 1984 - present. No charts, pictures, graphs.
Wall Street Journal | Historical This link opens in a new window
WSJ PDF full-text. 1889 to 1993.

Identify a Scholarly Journal Article

Unsure what a scholarly journal article looks like? This Interactive tutorial identifies sections that should appear in a scholarly journal article.