Research Guides: Types of Library Materials: Articles

About Finding Articles

Before you begin searching, select a couple of targeted keywords to use in the databases listed below.

As you search for articles, remember the difference between:

. Use the filters in databases to limit your search to the results you need.

These databases will cover a wide range of topics and will yield articles on most any subject.

Note: If you locate an article that you want but only see the abstract,

US Newsstream
A subset of Proquest, this database contains full text articles from 160 past and present newspapers located in the Western United States.
Newspaper Source
Provides full text for more than 40 national & international newspapers, selective full text for 389 regional newspapers and full text for select television & radio news transcripts.
Academic Search Complete
More than 6,300 full-text journals and magazines, including 5,700 full-text, peer-reviewed journals from a wide variety of academic disciplines.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR includes articles from over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The majority of content is journal literature, though inclusion of other materials such as conference proceedings, transactions, pamphlets, monographs, manuscripts, and other materials is growing.
ProQuest
ProQuest databases are useful for researching topics in almost all areas of study, e.g. Business, Science, Social Sciences, and Humanities. Articles from ProQuest overlap some with EbscoHost, but ProQuest also provides unique content.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides an extensive collection of books and journals in health/life sciences, physical sciences, and social/behavioral sciences.