Finding Journal Articles

Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With the most valuable and most numerous collection of peer-reviewed full text journals, Academic Search Premier offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. This resource contains full text for over 3,430 scholarly publications. Academic Search Premier includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. The diverse content is a valuable resource for your library, supporting core curriculum degree requirements and elective classes. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Business Source Premier, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, contains 2,710 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc. The database also includes many leading journals in the areas of economics, finance, and accounting, as well as country economic reports from the EIU, DRI-WEFA, ICON Group and CountryWatch. More than 200 of the journals have PDF full text back to 1965 or the first issue published. Business Source Premier contains PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.

ERIC indexes education-related literature, beginning in 1966. The ERIC database is the world’s largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, position papers, and resource materials.

LexisNexis Academic Universe provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information from nearly 5,000 sources, most of them available in full text. The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.

MLA International Bibliography provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Annually, it indexes more than 45,000 books and articles. Coverage includes works about literature that is transmitted orally, in print, or in audiovisual media and about human language, including both natural languages and invented languages (e.g., Esperanto). Inclusions must be of scholarly interest. No apprentice or simplified works are included.

Biological and Agricultural Index indexes periodicals in the core literature of biology and agriculture. BAI covers English language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Periodical coverage includes scientific journals from popular to professional that pertain to biology and agriculture. About 45% of the focus is on agriculture.

Biological Abstracts / BIOSIS Previews collects abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature. Biological Abstracts contains references to journal items focusing on vital biological and medical research findings, pharmacological studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Approximately 5,500 international journals are monitored, representing virtually every life science discipline. BIOSIS Previews also covers international meetings, review articles, books, and monographs.

MEDLINE (current, 1997- ) contains the most current years of the National Library of Medicine's online database of references to journal articles in the health sciences. Coverage of basic research and the clinical sciences is broad, and includes medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Information in the database comes from 3,900 journals in 40 different languages. More than half of these journals are published in the United States, and almost 90% of the current references are to articles in English.

Newspaper Source contains full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times (for a total of 245 full text newspapers and other sources). This database also contains indexing and abstracts for four national newspapers.

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Last updated September 9, 2003.

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