Guides: Children's Literature: Articles & Journals

Article Databases

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. 4400 literary journals, book publishers and dissertations indexed.
CBCA Complete (ProQuest)
With over 4.5 million records and more than 1,680 titles, CBCA Complete is ideal for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and education as produced in Canada. Includes 640 full-text periodicals and daily news sources (over 480 of which are Canadian), plus indexing to an additional 1,100 other titles (over 95% Canadian). Updated daily with full-text content (1985 to present) and bibliographic content (1971 to present).
ERIC (EBSCO)
May 2025: ERIC is being updated on a limited database. If you have questions contact library@msvu.ca

The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database provides coverage of the research literature in the field of education. It includes journal articles as well as books, reports, and other documents.

Journal Collections

A list of all journals (electronic and print) subscribed to by the MSVU Library can be found under our Journal List A-Z. It is searchable only by journal title.

The following journal collections are searchable either by journal title or by article keywords:

Taylor & Francis: Social Sciences and Humanities Collection (CRKN)
A collection of 662 electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Project Muse
Over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
JSTOR (CRKN)
A large collection of the most important academic journals in the Arts & Sciences, the Biological Sciences, and the Life Sciences. In most instances the volume run is complete back to the first issue.
Periodicals Archive Online (CRKN - ProQuest)
Periodicals Archive Online is a full-text journal archive covering close to 500 titles in the humanities and the social sciences with an emphasis on access to the backfiles of key academic journals.