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Article Indexes

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ProQuest Research Library restricted Indexes popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers and trade publications in a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Full-text available for over 2,500 journals. Coverage from 1971.

InfoTrac General OneFile restricted Indexes news and periodical articles on a wide variety of topics. Millions of articles are full-text. Coverage: 1980-present.

Scopus restricted Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial

RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)

LexisNexis Academic restricted Indexes thousands of domestic and foreign newspapers, as well as journals, and other publications in News, Business company reports and articles, Legal Research, Medical and Reference. The legal research category includes law reviews, law news, federal and state laws and cases. Mostly full text. Coverage dates vary.

Readers' Guide Abstracts restricted Indexes and abstracts a core list of approximately 300 popular magazines. Includes current events; book reviews; and music, dance, theatre, and motion picture reviews. Coverage from 1983 to the present, abstracts from 1984. Updated monthly.
Print: AI 3 .R48 (Ref) (1904-1998)

Readers' Guide Retrospective restricted Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. Some of these periodicals published short stories and book reviews.
Print: AI 3 .R48 (Ref.) 1904-98

Wilson Select Plus restricted Index to full text articles in science, humanities, social sciences, education and business. The index includes records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Coverage: 1994 to the present. Updated weekly.

ArticleFirst restricted Indexes from the table of contents pages over 16,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture. No abstracts. Coverage from 1990 to the present. Updated daily.

CQ Researcher restricted Explores a current news issue in-depth each week. Articles typically include charts, graphs and sidebars, a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliography, and a list of contacts. Coverage from October 1991 to present.

Essay and General Literature Index restricted Indexes essays in over 300 books each year, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage: 1985-present. Updated annually.

Expanded Academic ASAP restricted An index to a variety of scholarly journals in all academic disciplines as well as numerous news magazines and newspapers. Many include full-text. Coverage: 1980-present.

IngentaConnect open access Indexes and abstracts over 30,000 publications, with some access to full-text on a pay-per-view basis. Check our Journal Finder before purchasing articles.

ProQuest - all databasesSearch all ProQuest databases at once: ABI Inform, Dissertations and Theses,Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, National Newspaper Abstracts, OxResearch, Research Library, and Historical Newspapers.

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