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Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles

Academic Search Premier -- full text articles from around 4,500 magazines and journals and indexing for around 8,000 periodicals total [help with database] [more info]

ArticleFirst -- brief citations to articles from 12,000 magazines and journals; around 1,000 periodicals are available full text; back to 1990 [more info]

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals -- full text access to recent issues of around 350 periodicals the library subscribes to in print [more info]

Expanded Academic ASAP -- full text articles from around 1,000 magazines and journals, with citations from another 500 sources [help with database] [more info]

LexisNexis Academic -- full text articles from major newspapers, magazines and law reviews [help with database] [more info]

PAIS International - Public Affairs Informat November 21, 2006 es from around 1,600 periodicals, and thousands of government reports a year from an international perspective, back to 1972 [more info]

Periodicals Abstracts -- full text articles from around 1,000 titles, with another 1,000 citation-only [more info]

Reader's Guide -- index and some full-text of general interest periodicals 1983- present; for older indexing to general interest periodicals use Reader's Guide Retrospective, which covers 1890-1982

Wilson SelectPlus -- full text articles from 1,400 magazines & journals, back to 1994 [more info]

 

Journal Articles

Annual Reviews -- full text review articles from 14 Annual Review titles back to 1996, plus indexing of the content to the other 21 Annual Reviews back to the first volume; covering biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences, the articles in Annual Reviews offer a synthesis of the literature on a particular topic and aids in identifying key articles.

Ingenta -- table of contents information for over 25,000 journals back to 1988; used to be known as Uncover [more info]

JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive -- over 300 full text core journals, usually older than 3-5 years and back to the first issue of the journal [more info]

OCLC Electronic Collections Online -- indexes over 3,000 journals, back to 1995 [more info]

Project MUSE -- full text access to 170 core humanities and social science journals from over 50 academic and association publishers. Start date depends on the journal, but most start around 1998, through the latest issue. Also includes indexing/abstracting for another 130 journals.

ScienceDirect  -- full text articles from over 900 scholarly journals on the sciences, social sciences and business-related fields back to 1995; includes indexing of all 1800 Elsevier journals and the database MEDLINE [help with database] [more info]

Web of Science -- indexing and citation analysis of scholarly articles from 8,700 core journals back to 1987; comprised of 3 subsets: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index, which you may search one or all three.

Wiley Interscience -- full text articles from around 375 scholarly journals in the sciences, health, business, and psychology published by John Wiley & Sons, along with indexing to another 125 titles. Note: We do not have full text access to the online books or reference works.

 

Magazine Articles

CQ Researcher -- full text articles from this magazine back to October 1923; each weekly issue covers one current event or policy issue of around 20-30 pages in length [more info]

The Nation Digital Archive -- full text articles from The Nation, 1865 to the present

 

Newspaper Articles

Chicago Tribune Newsbank -- full text articles from the Chicago Tribune, back to 1985 [more info]

LexisNexis Academic -- full text articles from major newspapers from around the world (also covers magazines and law reviews, but newspaper articles is it's strength) [help with database] [more info]

Newsdex -- selected citations (no full text) to the State-Journal Register & Illinois Times back to 1980; defaulted to an author search, so change to Newspaper General Keyword to search the entire record.

Newspaper Source -- full text articles from over 200 regional, national & international newspapers, as well as television and radio news transcripts [more info]

 

Specialized Resources

Military & Government Collection -- covers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government from around 700 periodicals, of which 300 are full text [more info]

PapersFirst -- index of over 2.3 million papers presented at conferences worldwide, back to 1993 [more info]

ProceedingsFirst -- index of worldwide conference proceedings, back to 1993; includes list of papers presented [more info]

Proquest Dissertations and Theses -- contains index and full text for Ph.D. dissertations and Master's theses from 2003- presesnt.

 

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