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The following selected resources provide access to articles in scholarly publications called journals. What is a journal?

 This image identifies those resources where remote access is limited to University of Washington students, faculty, and staff.

Electronic Journal Indexes

 Academic Search Complete

Provides scholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

 America: History & Life Search

Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

 APS Online

American Periodicals Series Online includes full-pages images of 18th and 19th century American magazines. Currently only 18th century full-images are available. Be sure to change date limit to "Deep Backfile."

 Bibliography of Asian studies

Provides citations to western-language periodical articles, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften, etc. pertaining to east, southeast, and south Asia.

 Black Studies Center

Black Studies Center combines invaluable resources for research and teaching in Black studies: Schomburg studies on the Black experience, International index of Black periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago defender, ProQuest dissertations for Black studies, and Black literature index. Database is cross searchable and many articles provided full-text.

 CQ Researcher

Provides in-depth coverage of issues in health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.  A good source for finding opposing viewpoints.

 Current Contents Search

Index to more than 7000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

 eHRAF

Provides primarily descriptive information on the cultures of the world; a collection of ethnographic and other texts indexed by culture and subject.

 Expanded Academic ASAP

Indexes approximately 1500 scholarly and general interest periodicals in all disciplines. Coverage dates from 1980 to the present. Selected full text available.

 HAPI Online [Hispanic American Periodicals Index]

HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Many of the citations are linked to full text.

 Literature Resource Center

Literary biographies, journal articles, critical essays, and an encyclopedia of literary terms. Also provides access to MLA bliography.

 MLA bibliography

Contains bibliographic citations pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore; includes coverage from 1963 to the present

 ProQuest Databases

Provides articles in all fields from periodicals and newspapers. Selected full text available. Coverage dates from 1986 to the present.

 PsycInfo

Covers academic, research, and practice literature in psychology; from 1872 to the present.

 Science Direct

A searchable index of more than 1000 Elsevier Science online journals in the physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.

 Social Sciences Citation Index

General index to journals in the social sciences. Coverage dates from 1990 to the present.

1956/65-1998 available in print.

 Sociological Abstracts

Contains abstracts of serial literature in sociology, communications, and other related disciplines from approximately 2,500 journals.

Selected Search Engines

Google Scholar

Can be used for academic journal articles, chapters in books, books. Find citations (and sometimes full text). Review the Google Scholar Research Guide.

Google

Use the Advanced Search. Select your keyword(s) and for the File Format, choose Adobe Acrobat pdf to retrieve various reports. You need to judge the accuracy and relevance of items retrieved.