Finding Articles
Use these online databases to find articles in journals and online books. Use our online catalog to look up books and the journal titles you find by searching periodical databases. This catalog lists both the print and electronic versions of journal titles (when available).
Finding articles across disciplines and source types:
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)A general periodical database that provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 4,100 journals and links to the full text for over 3,200 journals. You can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles (scholarly articles).
- Google ScholarSearch for scholarly publications across disciplines.
- ProQuest Research LibrarySearches thousands of articles in general interest magazines and academic journals that cover a wide variety of subjects and academic disciplines. It also includes citations and abstracts to selected newspapers, television and radio programs. We subscribe to most of the periodicals indexed. Many articles are linked from the article citation page. You can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles.
Finding articles about language:
- MLA International Bibliography(Modern Language Association database). International coverage since 1963 to journal articles, books and dissertation on literature, folklore, languages, & dramatic arts, including film. Some full-text online access.
Articles from scholarly sources across disciplines:
- JSTORA large collection of searchable and browseable full-text scholarly journals. Covers from the beginning of the journal (earliest is 1665) up to within two to five years of the present [the "moving wall"].
- Project MuseContains full text of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.
Reading Citations in Bibliographies
Learn how to tell the difference between a book, a journal or magazine article, and an article in a book in a reference list/bibliography in this 90-second video. Research Minutes: Reading Citations.