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Periodical Articles

Academic Search Premier
A multi-disciplinary database containing full text from nearly 3,200 scholarly publications. Coverage includes the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

America's Historical Newspapers
More than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published during the past four centuries, including titles from all 50 present states, 1690-1922.

Berkeley Electronic Press
Online academic journals in the fields of law, business, economics, political science, marketing, technology, and medicine.

Factiva
Provides access to business, national, and international news since 1985.

HeinOnline
Provides full-text access to a large collection of legal periodicals and The Federal Register.

Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922)
Select "Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922)" from the "Multi-title Periodical Indexes" pulldown menu.

Index to Legal Periodicals (Wilson Web)
Index to law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and some government publications, from August, 1981 to date.

INSPIRE
Platform that launches 27 full text databases including: Academic Search, Masterfile, Business Source, Medline, ERIC, Health Source, Newspaper Source, Clinical Reference Systems, Middle Search, Primary Search, MAS FullTEXT Ultra, Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia, Ebsco Animals, Professional Development Collection, Clinical reference systems, and NetFirst. Indiana specific. (It is funded by the State of Indiana and is available from any library computer within the state of Indiana.)

JSTOR
Contains full text of many scholarly journals, largely in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science, and population studies.

LegalTrac
Index and abstract service for over 800 legal periodicals since 1980, some available in full-text.

Most-Cited Legal Periodicals
Hosted by Washington & Lee Law School, this webpage allows authors to find law journals by subject, country, or journal rank (where available), to display journal editorial information, and to facilitate an author's article submission to those journals.

NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository
The NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository contains working papers, reports, lecture series papers, and workshop presentations from 14 NELLCO Law Schools (Boston College, Columbia, Connecticut, Cornell, Duke, Fordham, Georgetown, New York University, Pennsylvania, Pierce, Roger Williams, Suffolk, Vermont, and Yale).

PAIS International
Indexes public policy and social science material within journal articles, books, government documents, pamphlets and the reports of public and private bodies since 1972. Indexes publications in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

ProQuest
Index and abstract service with some full text, for criminal justice publications as well as business and general news publications.

ProQuest (New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post)
Contains the full text of the New York Times (1851-2003), the Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), the Los Angeles Times (1881-1985), and the Washington Post (1877-1990).

Social Sciences Citation Index
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 scholarly social science journals covering more than 50 disciplines since 1987.

Social Sciences Index (Wilson Web)
Index of articles in social science journals.

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Pre-print service and institutional archives of academic journal articles.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Provides information on serials published throughout the world.

WilsonWeb
Law Library subscription provides access to the Index to Legal Periodicals and the Social Science Index.