Databases & Scholarly Articles
Library Databases may contain:
- scholarly articles
- newspapers or magazines
- images or historical documents
- full-text books
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JSTOR** Until June 30, 2021, due to the COVID-19 crisis, JSTOR is providing free access to a much greater number of journals. **
Back volumes for 880 journals from the very first issue but excluding the most current 2-5 years. About 20 titles have coverage through the most recent issue, and about 5 have current but not historical coverage. General subject areas include art & architecture, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, language & literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology and statistics. -
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary academic resource. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language, arts, literature, and medicine. Includes scholarly full-text articles from over 7,300 sources, with an additional 1,000 full-text sources. Indexes more than 10,000 periodicals
Other Databases with Important Content
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MasterFILE CompleteMulti-disciplinary database with full-text coverage of more than 2,300 magazines and journals. Emphasis is popular, rather than scholarly publications. Contains over 870 full-text reference books, over 73,000 full-text primary source documents, more than 1.6 million photos, maps and flags, and over 70,000 videos from the Associated Press.
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Professional Development CollectionFor professional educators and focused on children's health and development, and current topics in education. Full-text for over 500 journals, with indexing/abstracting for almost 800 journals. Subset of Academic Search Complete.
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Web of ScienceSimultaneously search the most important journals in the social sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, the humanities, and visual and performing arts. Includes 'high impact' scholarly sources. Search by author, topic, affiliation, etc., or follow links to cited sources. Create an individualized sign-in to save results, set up search alerts, and gain access to citation management with the My EndNote Web service. Includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Science Citation Index (SCI).
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Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles:
- are written, reviewed, and edited by experts,
- refer to work by other scholars
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