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TOP TEN ARTICLE DATABASES

These databases, listed in subject order, are the most used by students to find articles for research papers. To use the database, click on the database name, log in with the 14 digit number from your activated PJC ID card and the last 4 numbers of your Social Security number, then click Connect to Database. The search screen for the database will appear.

To cite articles from these databases, links to examples of the most common citation styles are provided.

Multidisciplinary Databases (work well for all research papers as well as for general interest)

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) More Info Excellent source for magazine and peer-reviewed articles from leading scholarly journals. To limit to full-text articles only, and/or peer-reviewed publications, check the appropriate box(es) under Limit your results below the search box. Citing
General OneFile (Gale) More Info Another excellent source of articles from a variety of reference sources including magazines, academic journals and newswires. Includes articles from The New York Times from 1995 forward. To limit to full-text articles only, and/or peer-reviewed publications, click the more search options link and check the appropriate box(es). Citing

Argumentative/Controversial Issues

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale) More Info Presents issues in a pro/con format from a variety of sources. Articles come from the Greenhaven Press social issues series and from a number of magazines, academic journals, newspapers and other reference sources. The complete text of the articles is available within the database. Use the tabs to select specific types of material. Citing
Issues and Controversies (Facts on File) More Info Supplies full-text, objective analysis and opposing points of view on current and controversial topics. Reports provide chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, web links, bibliographies, and more. Citing

Biography

Biography Resource Center (Gale) More Info Provides biographical information on more than 220,000 people in all disciplines and subject areas, from throughout history and around the world. Search by name, birth date, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or other criteria. Citing

News

America's Newspapers (NewsBank) More Info America's Newspapers (NewsBank) - Accesses full-text articles from over 700 U.S. newspapers. Includes articles from The New York Times from 2000 forward. Articles from Florida newspapers, including the Pensacola News Journal from 1999 forward, can be searched separately or as part of the entire database. Citing

Nursing

CINAHL (EBSCOhost) More Info Provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Covers articles from NLN and ANA. To limit to full-text articles only, and/or peer-reviewed publications, check the appropriate box(es) under Limit your results below the search screen. Citing
Health Source: Nursing/Academic (EBSCOhost) More Info Provides nearly 540 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals. To limit to full-text articles only, and/or peer-reviewed publications, check the appropriate box(es) under Limit your results below the search screen. Citing

Literature

Literature Resource Center (Gale) More Info Provides biographical coverage of over 124,000 writers and critical analyses, explications and overviews of works of literature from all time periods. Contains in-depth coverage of the 2,500 most studied authors. Updated material added continuously. Citing

Psychology

PsychArticles (EBSCOhost) More Info Provides full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 122,000 articles from 60 journals - 49 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present. Uses APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. To limit to full-text articles only, and/or peer-reviewed publications, check the appropriate box(es) under Limit your results below the search screen. Citing

To find a list of all of the available databases by subject Click Here. Instructions on how to write a research paper can be found at Research Paper Help. See our Information Guides for librarian selected resources on some common research assignments. For more information and help, contact a Reference librarian at: Pensacola Campus: 484-2006/email LRCReference@pjc.edu; Warrington Campus: 484-2252/email Warrington_Reference@pjc.edu; Milton Campus - 484-4450/email Milton_Reference@pjc.edu.


Last Updated: 12/06/07

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