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of previously published full text (newspapers, magazines, journals, book chapters) is available in subscription databases via the web. Inquire at your library to see if you have access to Academic Search Premier from EBSCO(www.ebscohost.com), Academic ASAP/Onefile from Gale Cengage (www.gale.cengage.com), JSTOR from ITHAKA (www.jstor.org), Project Muse from Johns Hopkins (muse.jhu.edu/), Proquest Central from ProQuest (www.proquest.com), Omnifile from Wilson (www.hwwilson.com), or other full-text databases.

The leading free full-text site for magazines and newspapers is BNET’s FindArticles (http://findarticles.com). This database of “hundreds of thousands of articles from more than 300 magazines and newspapers” can be searched by all magazines, magazines within categories, or specific magazine or newspaper.

For the full text of books, try the Internet Archive Text Archive (hwww.archive.org/details/texts)), pointing to the major digital text archives.

Tip #8: Archives of Older Published Periodicals Full text for newspapers, magazines, and journals published prior to 1990 is difficult to find on the Internet. One subscription site your library may offer is JSTOR (www.jstor.org), an archive of scholarly full-text journal articles dating back in some cases into the late 1800s. LexisNexis Academic (www.lexisnexis.com), also a subscription service, includes the full text of popular periodicals such as the New York Times as far back as 1980.

Two free sites offer the full text of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century periodicals from Great Britain and the United States, respectively: Internet Library of Early Journals (www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej) and Nineteenth Century in Print (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snchome.html).

Use your library’s interlibrary loan service to acquire articles from periodicals not freely available on the web. Electronic indexing (no full text) for older materials is readily available, back as early as 1900, sometimes earlier. Inquire at your library.

Four Steps Toward Productive Research Across the Disciplines

The steps below include a few of the sites most relied on by academic librarians. For the subscription databases, you will need to inquire at your library for local availability.

Step 1: search at least one of these multidisciplinary subscription databases; check your library’s website for availability.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) for journals

Academic ASAP/Onefile (Gale Cengage) for journals

JSTOR for journals

Omnifile (WilsonWeb) for journals

Project Muse for journals

Proquest Central for journals

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) for books

Step 2: search subject-specific databases. These too are mostly subscription databases; check your library’s website for availability.

Anthropology: Anthropological Abstracts

Art: Art Abstracts

Biology: Biological Abstracts, Biological and Agricultural Index

Business: ABI Inform, Business Source Elite/Premier, Business & Company Resource Center, Dow Jones Factiva, LexisNexis

Chemistry: SciFinder Scholar, Science Direct

Communication: Communication and Mass Media, Communication Abstracts

Computer Science: Inspec

Economics: EconLit

Education: ERIC (free)

Film Studies: MLA

Geography/Geology: GEOBASE

History: America History and Life, Historical Abstracts

Language, Literature: MLA, Literature Online

Law: LexisNexis, Westlaw

Mathematics: MathSciNet

Medicine: PubMed, Science Direct (free)

Music: RILM

Philosophy: Philosopher’s Index

Physics: Inspec

Political Science: PAIS

Psychology: PsycINFO

Religion: ATLA Religion

Sociology: Sociological Abstracts

Step 3: visit these not-to-be-missed free websites and meta-sites that lead to a variety of materials relevant to a discipline:

All subjects: Google Scholar scholar.google.com (books and journals)

Anthropology: Anthropological Index Online http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aiosearch/ (journals) Anthropology Resources on the Internet www.anthropologyresources.net

Art: ArtCyclopedia www.artcyclopedia.com (images and critical bibliographies)

Biology: