Databases by Subject
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Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Article1st (FirstSearch) |  |
1990-current |
| Listing of articles from the table of contents of journals in business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology,and popular culture. | ||
| Expanded Academic Index (Gale) | |
1980-current |
| Multidisciplinary index to articles in scholarly and popular English-language periodicals. | ||
| Google Scholar | ||
| Links to peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations | ||
| JSTOR | |
Dates vary |
| Backfiles of selected electronic journals in economics, finance, language, literature, mathematics, population/demography, philosophy, political science, history, sociology, ecology, higher education, and Asian studies. | ||
| Project Muse (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press) | |
Dates vary |
| Provides access to full text of scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. | ||
| ProQuest | |
1986-current |
| Multidisciplinary index to articles in scholarly and popular periodicals. Includes some newspapers, Historical New York Times and Wall Street Journal. | ||
| Readers' Guide Abstracts (WilsonWeb) | 1983-current | |
| Contains abstracts of articles from popular magazines on business,fashion, consumer affairs,fine arts, current events,health and nutrition, education, sports. | ||
| Readers' Guide Retrospective (WilsonWeb) | 1890-1982 | |
| Indexes articles from the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. Reflects the history of 20th century America. | ||
| Research Library (Proquest) | |
1971-current |
| Scholarly and popular journals | ||
| Scopus (Elsevier) | dates vary | |
| Abstract and citation database covering over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Emphasis on science and social science. | ||
| Wilson SelectPlus (FirstSearch) | |
1994-current |
| Multidisciplinary database of full-text articles. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. Many articles are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases. | ||
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