To explore other specialized databases, feel free to check out research guides created by Barnard librarians for research areas that may be related to your work:
For off-campus access to library online resources, remember to follow the links from CLIO or this research guide. You can also use the proxy bookmarklet or try LibKey Nomad.
Can't find an article through our libraries' collections? Use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to request a copy for free.
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database indexes journals from 1964 to present and includes citations and links to book and media reviews.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. It is also very useful for seeing if other scholars have cited a book, article, etc. Search on the title, and then follow the "Cited by ..." link.
Nearly every scholarly text has references that can serve as pathways to related research.
You can use these strategies to trace a conversation both "backward" and "forward" in time, using a source you have found.
To go "back" in time, finding sources that informed a scholarly text, check for clues of references in the text, usually in the bibliography, endnotes, footnotes, or works cited sections. You can use this bibliographic information to find a "known" source, by trying out a search in CLIO or Google Scholar.
To go "forward" in time (from the time of a text's publication), you might use a tool like Google Scholar to find examples of texts that have cited a particular source. To do this, perform a search for the source in question (by title or author should usually work). Then within the Google Scholar record, look for the link that reads: "Cited by ___." (this will show the number of sources that have cited the source you are looking at). Click on this link, and you'll find a list of citing sources. You can narrow down this list by doing a keyword search within it, for example, if you want to look at sources that have cited Geertz's "Thick Decription" and mention decolonization, try a keyword search with the word decolonization (or, to expand, decoloni*).