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 Premier This link opens in a new windowA 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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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThis 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 Sciences This link opens in a new windowSearch Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, and select ebooks on ProQuest.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBSC 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 Uni This link opens in a new windowNexis 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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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories This link opens in a new windowHere are full-text letters, diaries, interviews, and oral histories documenting the immigration experiences of 2,100 people from 1800-1950. Search this by nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, age, or occupation. Also included are immigrant guides, audio recordings and images of political cartoons.
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America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowArticle citations and abstracts from 1,700 journals on United States and Canadian history and culture, plus citations to books, chapters, book reviews and dissertations.
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Colorado Historical Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new windowHere are articles from 160+ Colorado newspapers in digital form, dating 1859-1923 from 23 cities and 18 counties, courtesy of the Colorado Historical Society. Selected titles, including the camp newspapers of the 10th Mountain Division, have coverage after 1923.
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Issues and Controversies in History This link opens in a new windowThis source reports on pivotal events in American and world history. It has background articles, biographies, images, timelines, charts, and primary source documents.
