How Do I Locate the Articles I Need for My Research?

The quickest and easiest way to find a database with articles in it is to go to Research QuickStart on the Library's webpage.  This resource is broken down by subject.  The databases (a collection of data organized for rapid search and retrieval) that are applicable to each subject are right at the top of the page.  All you have to do is select a subject, a database and start searching!

Descriptions of Databases BLC Subscribes To:

Academic Search Premiere- This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.  (From the 'Choose Databases' link in EBSCOhost.)

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials -

Business Source Premiere - Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. (From the 'Choose Databases' link in EBSCOhost.)

Communication and Mass Media Complete - Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for over 390 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of nearly 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 285 journals.  (From the 'Choose Databases' link in EBSCOhost.)

EBSCOhost - EBSCO MegaFILE is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 12,000 total publications and indexing & abstracting for more than 16,000 publications. Coverage spans every area of academic study and general interest subject area and offers information dating as far back as the 1800s. In addition, the database contains more than 84,000 biographies, 86,000 primary source documents, 10,000 company profiles and an image collection of more than 107,000 photos, maps and flags. MegaFILE is comprised of EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier and Regional Business News databases. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.  (From the 'Choose Databases' link in EBSCOhost.)

ELM - The links in the ELM database are mainly resources for grade, middle and high school students.  These are on the library's webpage so that our education students have an idea of resources they can use while preparing lesson plans.

Infotrac Professional Collection - This collection provides balanced coverage of education topics for professional educators.

JSTOR - This is quite a large collection.  The libary currently has 5 sections available for you to search in one easy-to-use searchbox.  A description of each collection follows:

          Arts & Sciences I - The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 119 titles in fifteen disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

       Arts & Sciences II - The Arts & Sciences II Collection is home to 125 titles. This collection adds depth to many disciplines introduced in Arts & Sciences I, such as economics, history, and Asian studies. Arts & Sciences II also offers core journals in several new disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies.

       Arts & Sciences III - Focused on the arts and humanities, the Arts & Sciences III Collection contains 150 titles. The collection makes available additional journals in language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.

       Arts & Sciences IV - The Arts & Sciences IV Collection contains over one hundred titles. Law, psychology, and public policy and administration are the new areas introduced with this collection. The collection also includes business and education titles.

       Arts & Sciences V - The Arts & Sciences V Collection will comprise a minimum of 120 titles when it is completed in 2009. Building on disciplines introduced in previous collections, Arts & Sciences V will include a number of important literary reviews and state historical journals. It will also widen the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as philosophy, history, classics, religion, art and art history, and language and literature.

(All JSTOR descriptions are from their Available Collections page.)

Project Muse - Includes journals in disciplines such as: criticism, culture, education, language,music, philosophy, politics, religion, rhetoric and more.  This link will take you to a page with a list of journals that are available in Project Muse.  We subscribe to the Basic College Collection. 

ProQuest Newspapers - Full text coverage of over 300 U.S. and international newspapers.  You WILL NOT find scholarly articles here, but you WILL find  newspaper articles, editorial cartoons, interviews, obituaries, poems, recipes, reviews of: books, film, opera, products, restaurants, theatre, tv and more!  You can also look up information on companies using the 'Advanced Search' feature and clicking on the 'More Options' tab.

PsycArticles - from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.