General Citation Indexes

Click on the titles below to launch individual databases. Due to licensing restrictions, access is restricted in most cases to Cornell University community members.

Further resources for the study of French Literature

Article databases for the study of Art History, below:

Literature Citation Indexes

Art & Architectural History Citations

History

Article Databases & Indexes

Search for and in individual databases

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Periodical indexes (in databases) identify and locate the articles published in magazines, journals and newspapers. Many databases also index essays, book chapters and monographs.

Some—but not all—databases provide full-text articles.

If the database does not provide full-text, but does give you a citation, click on the Get it! Cornell link to see if there is full text access through another database. If that doesn't work, take down the full article citation. Then, go back to the Classic catalog and search for the title of the journal the article appears in. The catalog will indicate which issues of the journal Cornell holds in both print and electronic forms. The full text of the article may be available through a different database.

For more precise searching, search databases individually

Browse the list of specialized indexes in the Art and Architecture section of the Databases search.

General Periodical Indexes

  • Academic Search Premier Provides indexing, abstracts (summaries) and some full-text covering general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences.
  • Proquest Research Library Indexes and abstracts over 1500 periodicals, covering general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. The ProQuest Direct Web interface provides the full-text, in several formats, of many articles contained in the database.