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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: Biology Browser www.biologybrowser.org (gateway to digital archives of colleges and universities, Agricola http://agricola.nal.usda.gov (journals)
Business: EDGAR www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml (company annual reports), Hoover’s Online www.hoovers.com/free (company reports)
Chemistry: Chemdex.org www.chemdex.org (chemical compounds), World of Chemistry scienceworld.wolfram.com/chemistry (encyclopedia)
Communication: Television News Archive: Vanderbilt University tvnews.vanderbilt.edu (index to television news)
Computer Science: arXiv.org arxiv.org/ non-peer-reviewed but moderated scholarly e-print submissions), CompInfo www.compinfo-center.com (magazines and downloads)
Economics: Intute: Economics www.intute.ac.uk/economics/ (reviewed websites associated with economics)
Education: Educator’s Reference Desk eduref.org (resource guides and lesson plans)
Film Studies: Film Studies Resources www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/filmstudies/index.html (index to reviews and criticism)
Geography/Geology: GeoSource www.library.uu.nl/geosource (gateway to reviewed web resources)
History: American Memory memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html (primary documents)
Language, Literature: Online Literary Criticism Collection www.ipl.org/div/litcrit (biography and criticism)
Law: FindLaw www.findlaw.com (free legal information)
Mathematics: arXiv.org