Where can I search for journal articles?
Below is a selected list of online indexes/databases in which you can begin searching for journal articles:
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Premier is a large scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database that provides full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study--including the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. - Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
Based on a foundation of Wilson's Humanities Index, plus some others, full text for over 2,000 journals across many Humanities disciplines--art, music, literature, theatre, history, classical studies, religion, philosophy, theology, etc. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides full-text articles from a wide variety of scholarly journals. Coverage ranges from the 1890s (in select journals) to four years prior to the current year. - American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collections This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1876, including 6,500 titles from the seventeenth century through the late nineteenth century. Also contains titles in more than two dozen languages including French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and more.
- Making of America Journals (Cornell) This link opens in a new window
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. - Making of America Journals (Michigan) This link opens in a new window
A digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE represents online access to over 300 high-quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals. - Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. This resource offers researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.
- SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to the full text of more than 500 SAGE journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. ***NOTE*** Full text access ends with 2022.
Where can I search for newspaper articles?
- Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersProvides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) (a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC)).
- Historical New York Times (1851-Current File) This link opens in a new window
- Minnesota Digital Newspaper HubProvides access to historical Minnesota newspapers. Search by topic or map, or browse by title, county, city/town, or date.
- ProQuest US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
U.S. news content as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s from national and regional news sources including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. - Star Tribune - Full-text backfiles This link opens in a new window
