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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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral HistoriesHere 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 LifeArticle 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 CollectionHere 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 HistoryThis source reports on pivotal events in American and world history. It has background articles, biographies, images, timelines, charts, and primary source documents.
