General Databases
Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
Description: Academic Search Premier (ASP)
contains full-text articles from nearly 4,700 periodicals,
including over 3,600 peer-reviewed scholarly journals. These
journals cover a wide variety of academic disciplines.
Popular news magazines and other magazines are also included.
NCWC Librarians Say: Great for starting
out with research on a huge variety of topics. Searching
can sometimes be tricky, because so many different fields of
study are covered. Also try searching ProQuest Research
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ProQuest Research Library via ProQuest
Description: ProQuest Research
Library (PQRL) provides full-text coverage of a wide range of topics including the arts, business, criminal justice, humanities, health, social sciences, and natural sciences.
3,820 titles are covered here, with 2,250 in
full-text.
NCWC Librarians Say: Great for starting out with
research on a huge variety of topics. PQRL contains some
resources that Academic Search Premier (above) does not, and
vice versa. Try searching both PQRL and ASP when
beginning your research. |
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JSTOR
Description: JSTOR contains
the complete text of selected scholarly journals, going
back as far as the journals go back. NCWC offers access
to the Arts & Sciences I collection, as well as the
Biological Sciences collection, including major journals in fields such as
economics, history, literature, political science, sociology, and
biology.NCWC Librarians Say:
JSTOR provides unique, exhaustive historical coverage of
some very important journals, and all articles are in
full-text. Wonderful if you're researching a topic
that's been important for many years.
Check out
JSTOR's Tutorials on YouTube:
How
to Search and
How
to Browse
(Audio required!)
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CQ Researcher Online
via CQ Press
Description: CQ Researcher offers balanced overviews of contemporary political and social issues. Each report includes background information, both sides of the debate surrounding the issue, and suggested resources to consult for further information.
NCWC Librarians Say: Writing about or
researching a very current issue? Want to see how you
feel about a current political debate? CQ Researcher is
your place. A tremendous place to educate yourself about
contemporary issues.
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OAIster via OCLC
Description: From the University of
Michigan and cataloging giants OCLC comes OAIster, a new
gigantic database of digitally-published material from
open-access digital archives. Scientists and
researchers more than ever are publishing online instead of
in journals; OAIster provides access to 20 million
electronically-published sources and counting.
NCWC Librarians Say: A large majority
of this information is scholarly and comes from very good
sources. These are downloadable articles and
publications that you can find on the web, but not all in
one place. Many are written by top scholars. A
great resource for getting stuff that's out there for free,
but hard to find.
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Wiley InterScience via North Carolina Consortium
Description: The InterScience database contains full
text for over 2,500 academic journals, books, and
reference works. Disciplines covered well
include business, chemistry, computer science,
education, life sciences, and social sciences.
NCWC Librarians Say: Almost all of the
content on Wiley is unique to Wiley, and much of it is very
useful. Books are lined up alongside
journal articles, which makes it easy to find what you need. |
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MasterFile Premier
via EBSCOhost
Description: From the same
vendors as Academic Search Premier, MasterFile
contains fewer periodicals than other
multidisciplinary databases (roughly 3,100), but has
interesting tools that allow searches for News Wires,
Primary Source Documents, and other useful items.
NCWC Librarians Say: For in-depth
primary-source research on certain topics, MasterFile is a
useful place to look. For getting started, try Academic
Search Premier or ProQuest Research Library first. |
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ArticleFirst via OCLC
Description: OCLC's database from tables of contents
of many journals includes citations only for over 23 million
articles. No indexes or abstracts, but a huge number
of titles that you can order through Interlibrary Loan.
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