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
- Subject Guide to Online Periodical Databases - use this if you have a subject area, for example psychology, but don't know which of our 200+ databases would work best for your topic.
- Title List of Online Periodical Databases - if you know exactly which database(s) you want to search.
- Houff Library Periodical Holdings - all of our magazines, journals and newspapers.
- Peer Review in 5 Minutes- excellent five minute video on what constitutes a peer reviewed article.
- Quick Tutorial on Reading Scientific Papers from Purdue University Libraries - http://www.lib.purdue.edu/phys/inst/scipaper.html
- Anatomy of a Scholarly Article from NC State University Libraries - http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/scholarly-articles/
Finding Full-Text Articles
What to do if the article you want isn't full-text in the database where you found it:
- Look in the Houff Library Periodical Holdings listing. Maybe you can check out the magazine or journal that has your article in it.
- 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 - Try these sources: JSTOR, Wiley InterScience, Oxford University Press, and American Chemical Society.
- Try DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals. This has full-text to nearly 91,000 articles.
- 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.
- Type the journal title into Google and see if the journal is free online.
- If that fails, then use the BRCC Library's free Interlibrary Loan service.
