Tips for Finding Articles
- The easiest way to find articles is to use the Articles & Full Text option on the library homepage.
- A more precise way to search for articles is to select and browse Research Guides on the library homepage, especially those recommended in this and other library guides.
- In the databases, choose the advanced or guided searches (usually 3 lines) to help you correctly format your search.
- Use OR between your search terms to broaden the search to include any of the terms.
- Use AND between your search terms to narrow the search to include all the terms.
- Find full text within the databases in html or pdf format.
- Use the GetIt!Cornell to link to full text found outside of the database.
- Ask a Librarian if you need further help!
Top Journal Article Databases
Disability crosses all fields of study. These are some of the most-used databases for finding Disability Studies information, but you can also view an alphabetical list or look at the databases suggested in the research guides for your discipline.
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ABI/InformABI/Inform, an extensive international business and management database, contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and full text of articles appearing in professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines published worldwide. ABI/Inform covers the areas of accounting, banking, computers, economics, engineering management, communications, finance, health care, human resources, insurance, international trends, law, management, marketing, public administration, real estate, taxation, transportation.
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Academic Search PremierGood for a broad, general search for disability-related information
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Alt-PressWatchFull text database of selected newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press. Basic or advanced subject searching takes you to in-depth articles on contemporary society, including coverage of the peace movement, ecology and the environment, labor, indigenous peoples, public policy, and grassroots organizing. This coverage of diverse points of view and perspectives complements the reporting in the mainstream press.
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AltPress IndexSubjects covered include anarchism, democracy, ecology, feminism, gay and lesbian issues, indigenous peoples, labor, national liberation, and socialism.
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Business Source CompleteBusiness Source Complete provides full text for scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,800 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for top scholarly journals, including the Harvard Business Review. It also includes industry and country reports from Euromonitor and company and industry reports from Datamonitor.
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Disability in the Modern WorldPrimary sources, supporting materials, archives, video, and other resources "as voiced by the disability community."
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Engineering Village 2Good database for web accessibility, assistive/accessible technologies, and other related information. Includes INSPEC, which also covers education and technology.
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ERICEducation database
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HeinOnlineLaw review articles, primary source materials, and government documents around disability rights, legal history, and policies
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International Bibliography of the Social SciencesThis database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year.
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JSTORJSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, business, and other fields. It includes the following collections: Arts & sciences I, II and III, General science, Ecology and botany, Business, Language and literature.
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PAIS InternationalContains citations to public policy literature of economics, education, government, law, international business, political science, public administration, and other social sciences. It includes references to journal articles, books, government documents, reports and pamphlets in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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PsycINFOCovers the study of attitudes and behaviors, as well as mental illness and other disabilities
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PubMedProvides access to over 22 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
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Sociology Source UltimateAn expanded version of SocINDEX, including greater coverage of peer-reviewed journals, international resources and open access titles. Provides citations and direct links to the texts of journal articles, book chapters and conference proceedings, some as far back as 1880. Comprehensive coverage encompassing sub-disciplines and related areas of the social sciences, including labor, crime, demography, economic sociology, immigration, ethnic, racial and gender studies, family, political sociology, religion, development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, social history, theory, methodology, and more.”
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Proquest Social Science PremiumThe ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection combines our discipline specific collections in politics and sociology, with powerful resources that cut across the entire spectrum of the social sciences. This Collection enriches the discipline by providing more coverage on applied social sciences, criminal justice, education, linguistics, and language behavior.
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Web of ScienceChoosing "All Databases" allows you to search an index of journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Full text, peer-reviewed journals
Sometimes we only have limited access to certain years of a journal, or there is a 1-year delay before we get access to full text. You can always request a free copy of journal article that we don't own through interlibrary loan (requires Cornell NetID)
- American Annals of the Deaf (established 1886)
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (open access)
- Disability & Society
- Disability Studies Quarterly (open access)
- Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities (previously published as Education & Training in Developmental Disabilities)
- Information Technology and Disabilities
- International Journal of Disability and Social Justice
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
- Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education
- Journal of Disability Policy Studies
- Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
- Journal of Medical Humanities
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities (limited access)
- Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools
- Learning Disabilities Quarterly
- Learning Disabilities Research & Practice
- Medical Humanities
- Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities
- Review of Disability Studies (open access)
- Sexuality & Disability
- Sign Language Studies