These databases will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, statistics, and more. If you are not sure of your topic, start with Academic Search Complete.
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Academic Search Complete
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- Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many.
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Directory of Open Access Journals
- Provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas, including agriculture and food science, biology, chemistry, health science, languages and literature, mathematics, physics, engineering, the arts, business, environmental science, history, law, political science, philosophy, religion, and social science. Coverage varies by title (updated continuously).
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FindArticles
- Hundreds of thousands of full text articles from more than 300 magazines and journals in a variety of disciplines from 1998 to the present. There are a few publications such as Scientific American that have abstracts only.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Search multiple encyclopedias and other reference works with a single search
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GPO Government Publications Catalog (Marcive)
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- Searchable database of publications (1976-) of the U.S. government. Also freely available on the Internet from the Government Printing Office with items from 1976- indexed. For more government information, see the Government Pages.
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InfoTrac Newspapers
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- Provides full text access (1996-present) to The Austin American-Statesman, The Houston Chronicle, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Times (London), Christian Science Monitor, Knight-Ridder Newswire, and more than a hundred others.
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Lexis-Nexis
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- Legal codes and cases; company financial information; full text magazine and newspaper articles. Documentation and a source list for the database are available.
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Masterfile Premier
Remote Access
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- Fulltext magazines, books, and other materials in a variety of disciplines aimed at a public library audience
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NetLibrary
Remote Access
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- A collection of current scholarly texts on a variety of topics purchased by St. Mary's and other Amigos library members. Here is a help page for using netLibrary.
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Newspaper Source
Remote Access
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- Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Updated daily.
More Interdisciplinary Databases
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GPO Access
- Searchable databases of government information: bills, CFR, Congressional Record, etc.
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GrayLit
- A portal for over 100,000 fulltext technical reports from the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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Ingenta
- Interdisciplinary journal index covering thousands of journals; searchable by keyword; browse tables of contents of any journal in the database. Some fulltext freely available.
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National Technical Information Service Publications (NTIS)
- Searchable catalog of technical reports, datafiles, CD-ROMs, videotapes, and audiocassettes from over 200 U.S. government agencies. 1987-present.
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National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Library of Congress)
- Searchable catalog of manuscript collections held by U.S. libraries and archives. Searchable by person's name, organization's name, subject, geographic location, and more.
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RAND Abstracts
- Search the abstracts or full text of reports and monographs on national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, community development, international relations, and regional studies from the RAND Corporation. Some of the materials cited in Rand Abstracts are available free. Only selected RAND Publications are available full text.
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Sparknotes
- Literature, philosophy, astronomy, economics, poetry, mathematics, history, chemistry, biology, physics, biography, psychology, computer science, Shakespeare, and health and nutrition concepts explained and summarized
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