Finding Scholarly Articles
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Academic Search CompleteFull text for about 8,500 periodicals including over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals across most areas of academic study as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 magazines and journals. Coverage is from 1887 to the present.
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Ethnic NewsWatchFeatures full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press with titles dating from 1990. Contains about 2 million articles from more than 300 publications with both national and regional coverage.
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Gender Studies CollectionAims to provide balanced coverage of gender studies topics such as family issues, marital issues, and health aspects. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.
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GenderWatchOffers authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. Coverage is from 1970 to the present.
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Family Studies AbstractsAbstracts related to family studies, including families, marriage, divorce, and family therapy. Contains over 50,000 records.
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JSTORFull text of over 1400 core scholarly journals across most subject areas. ***Pop-up blocker on your web browser generally must be turned off to download PDFs*** Although some current titles are included, the most recent 3-5 years are generally unavailable due to copyright restrictions.
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences CollectionA comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
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PsycINFO 1887-CurrentLiterature in psychology and related disciplines from 1887 - present. Links to full text articles in other databases.
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Political Science CompleteProvides full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles. Also features over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers.
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Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)This full-text resource provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals. Social Sciences Full Text includes full-text articles from hundreds of journals, covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. Content Includes: Full-text articles from 360 journals Full-text content dating as far back as 1972 High-quality indexing for more than 750 periodicals, over 510 of which are peer-reviewed.
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SocINDEX with Full TextProvides full-text for over 850 journals as well as abstracts for about 1,300 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this database provides indexing from more than 450 "priority" coverage journals and about 2,000 "selective" coverage journals. Contains extensive indexing for books/monographs (with about 850 available full-text), conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources. Also includes searchable cited references.
Women Studies Abstracts REF HQ1101 .W6
Includes abstracts to scholarly articles on a range of topics including Family, Family Planning and Interpersonal Relations. Note: this is a print resource located in the first floor reference collection.
Finding Law Review Articles
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Hein Online(Available until 4/30/2018)
HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 150 million pages and 160,000 titles of legal history and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges the gap in historical research by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,400 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of law journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more. -
Nexis Uni (LexisNexis)Offers more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 across all content types.
Finding a Copy of a Periodical Article
Locating the full text of the article in electronic form
If there is no PDF or HTML full text with the citation for an article in a database, click on Linked Full Text, if available. This link will either take you directly to the full text of the article or another database or website. See a librarian for help.
Finding an article in a specific periodical title
- Use the Journals tab on the top of the library home page.
- Enter the title of the journal or magazine, for example, Journal of Family Studies, in the search box.
- Look for the journal title in the results list.
- Click on an appropriate database.
- Link to the correct issue of the periodical (note the year, issue and volume number of the article).
If an electronic text is available, click on the link provided. If the library subscribes to the periodical in print or microform, click on the link Print Journals in Milne Library to check for the periodical’s location and availability.
Requesting an article on Interlibrary Loan
If you find an article from a periodical that is not available at Milne Library, you can request the article through the link Request item on Interlibrary Loan on the record for the article needed or through the link on the bottom of the homepage of the library website. See a librarian for help.
Revised: February 22, 2018