Subject Guides: Quick Facts: General Article Databases

Using General Article Databases

Databases listed on this page access articles from many disciplines rather than in one specific subject area. Use these multidisciplinary databases to discover how the issue you are researching is being discussed in various disciplines.

Make sure you have consulted Background Resources to find:

General information on your topic
Subcategories
Arguments
Terminology (subjects, keywords, phrases)
Authorities on this subject
Bibliographies of related sources

General Article Indexes

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 10,000 journals, including over 9,000 peer-reviewed titles. Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, womens studies, zoology and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR focuses on humanities, social science, and more recently, science titles which have proven themselves vital to these disciplines and which have many years of publication, in some cases going back to the 19th century. Also searches ARTstor.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window The Web of Science Core Collection accesses the Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) databases, gathered from over 9,300 scholarly journals. Searches for records by topic, author, source title, author address, cited author, cited work, cited year can be performed separately or combined. Articles are linked to other articles of the same topic. Updated weekly 1974
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ABI/INFORM (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Scholarly, news, and trade publications in all fields of business. Includes ABI/INFORM Dateline, Global, Trade & Industry, Accounting & Tax resources, and the Wall Street Journal. General coverage ranges from 1971 to the present.

RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management service that allows you to build bibliographies and manage citations.

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