Finding Articles in General Databases
Use these online databases to find articles in magazines, academic journals, and online books. Use our online catalog to look up the titles you find by searching periodical databases. This catalog lists both the print and electronic versions of magazine and journal titles (when available).
Finding articles across source types (i.e. magazines and journals):
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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).
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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 Journal Articles in Subject Databases
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MEDLINE via PubMedMEDLINE is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographic databases of life sciences and biomedical information. It is compiled by the US National Library of Medicine. It is searchable via PubMed, which includes MEDLINE as well as additional literature, non-indexed literature in biomedicine.
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Social Science Premium CollectionSearch across a range of ProQuest’s specialist index and full-text social sciences databases, covering subject areas including Politics, Sociology, Education, Linguistics, and Criminal Justice.
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Sociology Source UltimateUseful for finding articles on the history and cultural context of medical conditions and illness. Covers sub-disciplines and related areas of the social sciences.
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.