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Databases

Scopus (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
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.
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
Systematic downloading, redistribution to non-subscribers, and any commercial use expressly prohibited.

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Search Searches the entire body of literature on the NASA site which includes almost 6 million records in physics, astrophysics, geophysics, astronomy and science education in journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, reports, and presentations.
Science.gov Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (EBSCO) Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,200 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 1,000 periodicals.
American Physical Society Journals Search Engine Search engine and full text access to American Physical Society Journals

Audio Engineering Society Electronic Library This link opens in a new window Contains most of the convention preprints, conference papers, and journal articles originally published by the Audio Engineering Society beginning in 1953.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Index of papers presented at significant astronomical conferences. Edited at BYU. Papers are available in full text.
SIMBAD Astronomical Database The SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system.
International Nuclear Information Systems This initiative provides easy access to reliable information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, including non-conventional literature, and makes nuclear knowledge readily available worldwide.

Compendex This link opens in a new window Provides indexing and abstracts of the world's engineering literature in all fields of engineering. Includes over 5 million records referring to journal articles, conference proceedings and technical reports. Updated weekly.
No systematic or automated downloading.
SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window SPIE Digital Library is the world's largest collection of optics and photonics applied research. With more than 485,000 papers spanning biomedicine, communications, sensors, defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging, the SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive research database available on optics and photonics research.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window Indexed and provides FULL TEXT access to all IEEE and IEE journal and magazine articles, conference papers, and standards from 1988 to present with partial coverage before 1988.
No systematic downloading or robotic crawling.
Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window PQDT Global connects scholarship from 4,100 universities in over 60 countries, diverse voices, ideas, and perspectives can be viewed within a singular global context. : Each full text dissertation and thesis in PQDT is fully searchable providing an unparalleled resource for text and data mining analysis making connections that generate new insights.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations - BYU This link opens in a new window Electronic versions of works submitted to the BYU School of Graduate Studies

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BYU ScholarsArchive ScholarsArchive is Brigham Young University’s institutional repository for the scholarly and creative content produced by the University. ScholarsArchive makes research, publications, data, and journals produced by BYU faculty and students available to a global research audience.

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About Articles

In academic publishing, a paper (or article) is an academic work that is usually published in an academic journal. It contains original research results or reviews existing results. Such a paper, also called an article, will only be considered valid if it undergoes a process of peer review by one or more referees (who are academics in the same field) in order to check that the content of the paper is suitable for publication in the journal. A paper may undergo a series of reviews, edits and re-submissions before finally being accepted or rejected for publication. This process typically takes several months. Next there is often a delay of many months (or in some subjects, over a year) before publication, particularly for the most popular journals where the number of acceptable articles outnumbers the space for printing.

Source: Wikipedia, see article.

About Databases

Article Databases have search engines to help you find journal articles for specific disciplines. The databases included on this page are selected for this particular discipline. As you use them, look for the "Get it at BYU" link within the search results. Clicking this will direct you to either the electronic version of the article, the call number for the printed version, or the InterLibrary Loan service (ILL) to request the article if not available at BYU. ILL requests are free and are usually delivered within 2 business days.

Journal Finder

If you have an article reference, enter the Journal name to find it at the HBLL.