Popular Culture Studies

General databases

Use these databases to search across a wide variety of subjects. Useful if you're starting out or if your topic is interdisciplinary.

Subject-specific databases

Use these databases to focus your search on academic journal articles in a specific field or subject area (music, literature, film studies, etc.).

A number of scholarly journals focus on popular culture studies. Here is a selection.

Here are some tips for better search results in databases.

This usage works on most databases, but check 'Help' sections for supported search syntax.

Boolean: (using operators: and, or, not)

• mother AND father searches for occurrences of both words within scope defined.
• mother OR father searches for one or all, but both are not required.
• mother NOT father searches for occurrences of the word ‘mother’ without use of the word ‘father.’
• (mother NOT father) AND god searches for occurrences of the word ‘mother’ without use of the word ‘father,’ then also requires the word ‘god.’

Truncation:

art* (asterisk as truncation character) searches for art, arts, artistic, artful, etc.

Wildcard:

m?n (question mark as wildcard character) searches for man and men.