Finding Articles: Tips for Getting Started
Popular Research Databases
Here's a list of the most popular places to find magazine and scholarly journal articles. You can search for an article by topic (e.g., Haiti earthquake) or by title and/or author if you know it already. We recommend asking your professor or a librarian for guidance in developing the best search strategy for your topic or discipline.
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- Academic Search Premier
- Articles from academic journals and magazines. Many articles are available in PDF.
- JSTOR
- Full-text archive of scholarly journals in the arts and sciences. Please note that current issues are not included and there is a gap, from 1 to 5 years, between the most recent issue published and the most recent issue available in JSTOR. You must choose "Include only content I can access" to limit the search to articles the library owns.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
- Full-text news, business, legal and reference information.
Large Scholarly E-Journal Collections
- Oxford Journals Online
- Full-text access to 211 titles published by Oxford University Press, including archival access to over 150 titles, with the oldest material dating back to the middle of the 19th century.
- Project Muse
- Provides the full-text of over 300 major university press journals including Johns Hopkins, Ohio State University, Michigan State Universty, and many others.
- Sage Publications
- Full-text articles from over 400 e-journals published by Sage from Vol. 1, issue 1 to the current issue.
- ScienceDirect
- Full-text articles from most titles published by Elsevier from 1995 onward where available. Does not include some health sciences, society presses, or Cell Press titles.
Newspapers
The Burritt Library subscribes to several databases that include the full-text of newspaper articles. For many major titles, these databases offer a much deeper archive and more sophisticated searching than can be found on the newspaper's public web sites.
- New York Times
- Articles from the New York Times from January 1, 1985 through the current issue.
- Proquest Newspapers
- Find full-text articles published in over 50 national newspapers, including the New York Times, Hartford Courant, Washington Post, LA Times, and the Boston Globe. Coverage varies, but many newspapers have a backfile extending to the 1980s.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
- Full-text national and international newspapers.
- Historical Newspapers
- Hartford Courant Historical - Full images of the complete Hartford Courant from 1764-1984. Contains full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
- New York Times Historical - Full images of the complete New York Times from 1851 to 2006. Search by keyword, by date, etc. Images of specific articles and full pages available.