Online Databases
To assist in finding journal and periodical articles - these require a BSU login.
- Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowAcademic Onefile contains articles from 8,000 academic journals.
- Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new windowA general-interest academic database which features full text for over 2,300 scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals
- America: History and Life (with Full Text) [EBSCO] This link opens in a new windowBibliographic references, with abstracts, to articles from over 2,000 journals covering American and Canadian history.
- Anthropological Index Online This link opens in a new windowContains citations to more than 750 international journals in anthropology and archaeology held by the Anthropology Library at the British Museum
- Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) [EBSCO] This link opens in a new windowA bibliographic database, with abstracts, citing articles from over 375 art periodicals.
- Diversity Studies Collection [Gale] This link opens in a new windowThis collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowProvides more than 7,000 video titles covering a broad range of subject areas.
- Gender Studies Collection This link opens in a new windowThis collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture.
- Health and Medicine This link opens in a new windowArticles from a variety of health periodicals, plus excerpts from health-related reference books
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCitations, with abstracts, from the more than 1800 journals covering world history (excludes the US and Canada).
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowBSU currently has access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV as well as the Ecology and Botany I Collection.
- Nexis Uni (formerly: LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowReferences for articles from professional journals in modern languages and literatures.
- Political Science Complete This link opens in a new windowThis database contains full text for over 400 journals, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals with a worldwide focus.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThe world's largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Includes nearly 4 million bibliographic records from more than 50 countries and indexing of more than 2,500 journals, 99% of which are peer-reviewed. Coverage dates back to the 17th and 18th centuries, with extensive coverage from the 1800s to the present. Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA) and updated weekly.
- ScienceDirect College Edition This link opens in a new windowProvides access to more than a quarter of the world's scientific and medical journal articles online.
- SocIndex with Full Text This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive sociology research database with full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals.
Looking for a particular article?
You can determine whether Maxwell Library subscribes to a particular journal with the jA to Z journals/newspapers which lists all of our print and electronic subscriptions.If you need an article from a journal to which we do not subscribe, you may request it through Interlibrary Loan / Document Delivery Services.
- Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery ServiceBSU faculty, librarians, administrators, students and staff may use Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Services (ILL/DDS) to request materials not found in the Maxwell Library collections.
Suggested Journals
- Culture, Society & Masculinities.
- Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality.
- Men and Masculinities.
- Psychology of Men and Masculinity
Suggested Readings
Harper, S.R. (2012). Black Male Students Success in Higher Education: A Report from the National Black College Achievement Study. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education.
Schieferecke, Roger W. "Helping Males Success in College Male's Experiences of Mattering and Marginalization." College Student Affairs Journal 31(2): 87-99..
Severians, Sabine. (2012). "Leaving College: A Gender Comparison in Male and Female-Dominated Programs.Research in Higher Education." (53): 453-470.
Spruill, Nicklaus, Joan Hirt and Yun Mo. (2014). "Predicting Persistence to Degree of Male College Students." Journal of College Student Retention. 16(1) 25-48.