Does W&L Have This Article?
You can use an option on the library homepage entitled Journal Search to enter the title of the journal or magazine you are looking for.
- An example: Comparative Politics
Be sure to take note of the limited years of coverage (if any) for each option.
Article Databases -- Law Reviews and Other Law Journals
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HeinOnline Law Journal Library This link opens in a new window A multifaceted repository of online materials for legal and historical research. (W&L Law Library subscription)
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Legal Collection This link opens in a new window Full-text content of more than 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals, covering "issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world" -- constitutional law, criminal justice, environmental law, commercial law, ethical issues, etc. Chronological coverage varies among sources, with some extending back to the early 1990's.
Article Databases -- Specialized Scholarly
These databases specialize in locating articles in scholarly or academic journals and related sources.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Excellent starting point. Multidisciplinary article database offers access to more than 16,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, including over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals.
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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of sociology and its sub-disciplines, with very good coverage of related areas of study, especially politics. In addition to full-text journals, it contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new window The world's most comprehensive source for bibliographic coverage of psychology and behavioral sciences literature. Subjects covered include education, linguistics, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, physiology, psychiatry, sociology, and other areas.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window A digital archive of over 1,100 important scholarly journals. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years, based on JSTOR's agreement with the journal's publisher.