Best Databases for Articles
In many cases, our general interest article collections will be the best place to start, but also look at the specialized options.
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Academic Search PremierA favorite for the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, medicine, and education, ASP indexes 8,200 periodicals. Full-text articles from 3,750 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals are found here, plus a number of popular sources.
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CQ ResearcherBalanced journalistic reports on political, social, and economic topics of the day, these are favorites for speeches and debates. Each report has background information, chronologies, supporting documentation, and pro-con arguments on a single issue like health care reform, gun laws, swine flu, or domestic violence.
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Academic OneFileThis indexes 12,500 periodicals in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, Physical Sciences, Medicine and Education, with 5,400 titles in full-text. The sources are a mix of academic, professional, and popular periodicals and newspapers.
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ProQuest Social SciencesSearch Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, and select ebooks on ProQuest.
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Business Source CompleteBSC contains articles from scholarly journals, trade journals, and news sources. It covers all areas of business and management. In addition there are company profiles, SWOT analyses, industry reports, market research reports, and country reports.
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Nexis UniNexis Uni provides access to more than 15,000 full text news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis with an interface designed for personalization, collaboration, and quick discovery.
Other Article Resources
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Alternative Press IndexAlternative Press Index retrieves citations and abstracts from nearly 300 alternative periodicals, newspapers and magazines since 1991.
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, 2nd editionFull text letters and diaries of more than 500 British and Irish women living between 1500 and 1950. Search by name, age, occupation, religion, subject matter, or historical event.
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Issues and Controversies in HistoryThis source reports on pivotal events in American and world history. It has background articles, biographies, images, timelines, charts, and primary source documents.
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Latin American Women WritersBrowse or search this collection of prose, poetry, drama and essays written by influential Latin American women from the colonial era to the present.
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North American Women's Letters and DiariesThe immediate experiences of 1,325 women recorded in 150,000 pages of diaries and letters is captured here. The women lived from the Colonial era to 1950.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000This edition of the Scholar’s Edition of Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 includes document projects and primary authors. It also includes book, film and website reviews; teaching tools; a dictionary of social movements and organizations; and a chronology of U.S. women’s history.
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Women’s Issues and Their Advocacy Within the White House, 1974-1977A digital collection of 54,111 documents from the Gerald R. Fold Presidential Library.
