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Houff Library
Houff Student Center Second Floor
453-2247
213-700, ext.2247
943-7002,ext. 2247
888-750-2722, ext.2247
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Find Articles

Our Most Commonly Used Databases

  • Academic Search Complete - our new general database (The MLA/APA citation feature isn't always working in Explorer, but does work in Firefox.)
  • EBSCOhost -  search up to all 36 EBSCO databases at once plus your MLA and APA citations are done for you. (The MLA/APA citation feature isn't always working in Explorer, but does work in Firefox.)
  • Factiva - Newspaper, journal, magazine, newswires, newsletters, media programs, web sites, and company report articles from all over the world.  All articles are full-text and updated daily.
  • CQ Researcher
  • Issues and Controversies
  • JSTOR - access to older articles in the Arts & Sciences, Biological Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany, Health & General Sciences, Language & Literature and Mathematics & Statistics.
  • Opposing Viewpoints- gives both sides of an issue which is the only way to know your viewpoint

Also Helpful

Finding Full-Text Articles

What to do if the article you want isn't full-text in the database where you found it:

  1. Look in the Houff Library Periodical Holdings listing. Maybe you can check out the magazine or journal that has your article in it.
  2. Not there?  Then copy and paste the JOURNAL name in the following links This will tell you if it's full-text in one of our 200+ databases:
    VIVA Online Journal Locator
    VCCS Online Journal Search
  3. Try these sources: JSTOR, Wiley InterScience, Oxford University Press, and American Chemical Society.
  4. Try DOAJ:  Directory of Open Access Journals.  This has full-text to nearly 91,000 articles.
  5. If your journal still isn't full-text in either of these two links, then copy the ARTICLE title and and paste it into a Googlesearch to see if it's on the author's home page or in an online journal.
  6. Type the journal title into Google and see if the journal is free online.
  7. If that fails, then use the BRCC Library's free Interlibrary Loan service.