Multi-Subject Databases

For Journal & Magazine Articles

Article First More > Indexes articles from the table of contents pages of journals.
Coverage: 1990 to present

Electronic Collections OnlineFull Text More > Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. It features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of journal articles, dissertations, reports, and conference proceedings and papers.
Coverage: 1995 to present

FirstSearchFull Text More > Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. It features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of journal articles, dissertations, reports, and conference proceedings and papers.
Coverage: 1966 to present

Google Scholar More > Provides access to scholarly literature "across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations." Note that many articles contain only the citation and no full text; if full text is not available, you can order articles or books via Interlibrary Loan.
Coverage: Varies

JSTORFull Text More > A full-text collection of more than 400 journals in business and the liberal arts, with especially strong coverage of business, finance, economics, history, regional studies, education, and sociology. (Our subscription includes the Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences IV, Business I, and Business II collections.) JSTOR is notable for the high quality of the journals it includes. The most recent three to five years of each journal are usually excluded from JSTOR, however.
Coverage: Varies

ProQuestFull Text More > Provides searching of over 7,000 newspapers, magazines and journals across all subjects. Most articles are full text. Separate databases include National Newspapers, ABI/Inform, Research Library, Historical New York Times, PsycArticles and PsycInfo.
Coverage: Varies

ProQuest Research LibraryFull Text More > Provides coverage in a wide range of magazines and journals across a broad subject area.
Coverage: Varies

WilsonSelectPlusFull Text More > Provides full-text articles in science, humanities, education and business. Search over 2,000 journals simultaneously. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
Coverage: 1994 to present

For Newspaper Articles

Historical New York TimesFull Text More > Indexes the full text of The New York Times from 1851 through 2005.
Coverage: 1851-2005

LexisNexis AcademicFull Text More > Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, trade, legal, environmental, computers, patents, entertainment and medical publications. The service covers newspapers, magazines, federal and state statutes, and federal regulations. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. This extensive database is searchable by words or phrases.
Coverage: Updated continuously

NewsbankFull Text More > Find current and archived state, national, and international articles on issues, events, people, government, and more with this collection of newspapers and other news sources, including The New York Times (1985-present), San Diego Union-Tribune (12/5/1983-present), San Francisco Chronicle (1985-present), and Washington Post (1977-present).
Coverage: 1980s to present

ProQuest NewspapersFull Text More > Contains coverage of the country's leading newspapers, such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post.
Coverage: Varies

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