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Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier
Large database covering nearly all academic disciplines. Full text for over 4000 journals. A good place to start your research.
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ArticleFirst
Citations provided for over 12,000 titles in all disciplines. No full
text available.
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Current Contents
Retrieve tables of contents for over 6500 titles, both scholarly and popular.
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Ingenta
Search tables of contents of over 28,000 titles. Retrieved articles may be purchased from the company (or found in the library).
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Journal Citation Reports
ISI's statistical analyses of the importance of individual journals in their field: the impact factor.
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Lexis-Nexis
Newspapers, magazine, journals, as well as legal and government information. Full text.
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PapersFirst
Papers from conferences, symposia, meetings, workshops etc. Produced by the British Library. No full text.
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Proceedings First
Use this database to find information about a particular conference or symposium or the like. You will retrieve a list of the papers given at the event.
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
(formerly Dissertation Abstracts)

Citations for Ph.D. theses, in all academic subjects, written at accredited universities from 1861-present.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective
General interest periodicals from 1890 to 1982. Good for history of science and technology.
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Web of Science

Good for general searches, and also for citation searching (find out how often - and where - a particular article was cited.
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