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Electronic Journal Indexes

Step 1. Search the databases listed below using keywords that are relevant to your topic. Once you find an article you'd like to read, check to see if there is a "UW Holdings" link. If so, click that link as that service will automatically try to find the full-text of the article for you. If it does not succeed, you should note the title of the article, the article's author and which journal it is in, including journal title, issue, year, and page numbers.

Step 2. If you are unable to find the full-text of an article, search the UW Libraries Catalog for the JOURNAL TITLE. Do not search by the author's name or the article's title -- they are not in the catalog. Once you find the journal, note the location, call number, and status of the item you're interested in. Go to that location.

 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."

 Antropological Literature

Journal articles, book chapters, and essays on anthropology and archaeology published in English and European languages.

 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 Index

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

 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).

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.