Article Databases -- Broad Coverage
Articles in a wide range of publications, including popular, news, and opinion magazines, newspapers, and major academic/scholarly journals.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowExcellent starting point. Multidisciplinary article database offers access to more than 16,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, including over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals.
Specialized Scholarly and Professional Databases
Mostly valuable for journal and magazine articles published within the past twenty or so years, although some older articles are available.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides citations to over 600 journals in communication, mass media, and related fields, as well as books, reports, dissertations, and other resources. Includes full-text articles from over 500 journals.
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowComprehensive 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.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThe 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.
- Legal Collection This link opens in a new windowFull-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.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source covers business journals, magazines, and newspapers. About 7,000 publications, over 2,000 of which are peer-reviewed journals, as well as other resources, including financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. You might try changing the "select a field" drop-down menu to "CO Company Entity" before searching for a company name.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA 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.
- Journalism Professional Sites -- Google SearchW&L-designed, Google-based site is designed to identify about 200 important free online resources created by practitioners and scholars of journalism and related fields, usually intended to reach an audience of journalists, students, and scholars.
Who Has Cited This Academic Article?
If you discover a "perfect" scholarly article, you can use Google Scholar to find out if more recent articles have cited it.
Search for the title of the article (within quotation marks) and look for the result's "Cited by..." list. For example, this 2013 W&L-related article has been cited 46+ times in the Google Scholar database.
Getting an Article's Text
In many cases, an entry in one of our databases will direct you to the complete text of an article.
But what do you do when the text is not immediately available? How do you know if we have access to an article?
This link, found in many databases, will take you to a page which will present your options, which may include (1) other databases, and/or (2) interlibrary loan.
Interlibrary Loan
This option enables W&L students and faculty to get copies of articles or other materials -- without charge -- from other libraries across the U.S. (For more information, see this page.)
Does W&L Have This Magazine (or Journal or Newspaper)?
You usually can answer this question by searching our Full Text Journal List.