Finding Articles
All of the databases listed below will take you to articles published from a variety of sources--scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. Some provide you with the complete text of the article, while others will give you just a short description and a link to our full-text finder, a tool that will search for the complete article in a different source.
- Vera Multi-Search Much like a search engine of search engines, Vera Multi-Search will search through several article databases at once to find you information. Click on "Databases by Subject" to get a list of databases for a specific field.
- ProQuest Research Library Covers many different subject areas and many different media, from scholarly journals to newspapers to magazine.
- Lexis Nexis Academic Good source for newspaper and magazine articles. Allows you to limit your search to articles from online magazines.
- Alternative Press Index Covers many alternative, radical, and left publications that address political, economic, social and cultural issues.
- Ethnic NewsWatch A full-text collection of newspapers, journals and magazines published by ethnic and minority presses.
- Web of Science Covers high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals. Note: to access the entire text of articles, be sure to set your browser to allow pop-ups.
- Project Muse A collection of major scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- JSTOR Provides access to scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines over many decades, although may not include issues from past 5 years.
Research Databases by Subject
Not sure what the best database is for your subject? Look it up on this list--each subject link contains a list of the best places to search
How to Find Out More about a Magazine, Journal, or Newspaper
Ulrich's International Periodicals is a great way to learn more about a magazine, journal, or newspaper:
- Each entry can tell you whether the title is scholarly and/or peer-reviewed.
- Peer-reviewed (or refereed) titles have a symbol shaped like a referee's shirt next to them.
- Some entries have reviews, which can sometimes tell you a publication's political slant.
- Ulrich's International Periodicals Note: Only 5 users can be in at one time, so if access is denied, try again later.
Questions?
Mark Szarko
Instruction Coordinator, Humanities Library
szarko@mit.edu
(617) 258-8022
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