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MOST USED 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 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.

For more databases, see   ALL DATABASES .

Multidisciplinary Databases (work well for all research 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 For citing help, click on the yellow page icon at the top of each record.
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. Viewpoint articles come from the Greenhaven Press social issues series. Also includes articles from a number of magazines, academic journals, newspapers and other reference sources. Use the tabs to select specific types of material. Citing
CQ Researcher Plus Archive (CQ Press) More Info Explores a single "hot" issue each week, ranging from social to environment, health, education, and science. 44 reports produced each year, including four expanded reports. Includes charts, graphs and sidebar articles. Also contains the complete archive of Editorial Research Reports dating back to 1923. Citing
Issues and Controversies (Facts on File) More Info Supplies an 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

Health and Medicine

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 For citing help, click on the yellow page icon at the top of each record.
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 For citing help, click on the yellow page icon at the top of each record.
Medline with FullText (Ebsco) More Info Full text for nearly 1,200 journals with coverage dating back to 1965. Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine. MeSH searching available, limiting includes Journal Subset and Publication Type. Search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. Citing For citing help, click on the yellow page icon at the top of each record.

History

History Reference Center (EBSCOhost) More Info Provides full text from more than 750 history reference books and encyclopedias, and cover-to-cover full text from nearly 60 history magazines. Further, the database contains historical documents; biographies of historical figures; historical photos and maps; and historical film and video. Set to search Academic Search Complete simultaneously. 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
New York Times Historical (Proquest) More Info Full-text and full-image articles for The New York TimesŪ, covering the period from 1851-2005. Citing
JSTOR More Info Back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Use the Advanced Search and page down to select Discipline: History , and/or others that may apply to the research. Citing

Literature

Literature Resources From 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 For citing help, click on Citation Tools on the right. Select appropriate format, click Save, then Open or Save.
Literary Reference Center (EBSCOhost) More Info Includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, articles of literary criticism, author biographies, full text of literary journals, book reviews, classic & contemporary poems, classic & contemporary short stories, full text of classic novels, author interviews, and over images of key literary figures. For full text only, use the checkbox below Document Types . Citing For citing help, email both .pdf and .html text to self, or, use print function to print .html text/citation and .pdf citation.
JSTOR More Info Back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Use the Advanced Search and page down to select Discipline: Language & Literature , and/or others that may apply to the research. Citing

News

America's Newspapers (NewsBank) More Info Accesses articles from over 700 U.S. newspapers. Articles from Florida newspapers, including the Pensacola News Journal from 1999 forward, can be searched separately or as part of the entire database. Citing
New York Times (NewsBank) More Info Full-text coverage of the New York Times from 1995 to present. 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 TermsŪ. To limit to full-text articles only, check the box under Limit your results below the search screen. Citing For citing help, click on the yellow page icon at the top of each record.
JSTOR More Info Back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Use the Advanced Search and page down to select Discipline: Psychology , Sociology, and/or others that may apply to the research. Citing

Science

Science Complete (Wilson) More Info Content of three science-oriented databases at one time: Applied Science and Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text. Includes full text and abstracts for a wide range of scientific and general interest publications. Citing For citing help, click on Cite at the top of each record.
Science Resource Center (Gale) More Info Multi- source database, provides full-text science-related reference books, indexing, abstracts, and full text science-related magazines and academic journals, newspaper articles, images, and web site links. Citing

Sustainability

GreenFile (EBSCOhost) More Info This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. It contains nearly 300,000 records. To limit to full-text articles only, check the appropriate box(es) under Limit your results below the search box. Citing For citing help, click on the yellow page icon at the top of each record.

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