General Databases

Places to Start:

  • Academic Search Premier – multi-disciplinary database with full text for more than 4,500 publications, including peer-reviewed journals
  • CQ Researcher – original, comprehensive reporting on issues in the news, including pro/con essays from experts in the field.
  • JSTOR – complete full-text back files of 117 core scholarly journals in most academic areas (contents are 2-5 years behind print publications)
  • MUSE – full text of 100+ academic journals in arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics (current issues included)
  • NewsBank – local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers, full-text; a dozen Indiana newspapers are covered, including the Indianapolis Star and two Fort Wayne papers

Other places to look :

  • Alternative Press Index (1991-) and Archive (1969-1990) – international and interdisciplinary news of cultural, economic, political and social change
  • Biography Resource Center – information on more than 220,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas
  • LexisNexis – news, legal information, business, medicine and reviews
  • New York Times, Historical – full page and article images with searchable full text from the first issue in 1851 through 2001
  • WorldCat – catalog of books, periodicals and media available in other libraries.

Updated 28-Aug-2008 SWH