Use these databases to start finding the materials that are available to you in a multidisciplinary databases. Searching these databases are good places to identify subject headings and to gage the amount of literature availalble on your topic.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world. Offers full-text coverage and includes master's theses and foreign language dissertations.
JSTOR coverage spans a variety of disciplines, with a focus on the humanities and social sciences. The included content is comprehensive for archival and historical materials in the collection’s scholarly titles. The most recent 3-5 years of each journal is not available directly via JSTOR, however the USF Libraries provides access to current issues of a majority of these titles in other database and e-journal subscriptions.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings and features tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.