General Article Databases — Citation Indexes — Finding Information about Journals — Related Pages
General Article Databases (popular and scholarly articles)
General Databases cover a range of topics. Each database also covers different sources, so you might consider using more than one. If you have a specific subject the More Articles by Subject (in the right column) might be useful.
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| Academic OneFile (Gale) |
| Indexes, abstracts and provides selected fulltext for scholarly journals and popular magazines in all subjects.[more info] |
| Coverage: 1964 - present |
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| Google Scholar |
| Search the Internet for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research...[more info] |
| Coverage: Varies |
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Citation Indexes
Traditionally, citation indexes are used to find out who has cited a paper in published research. The idea is that if, someone cited an article in his/her research, then the topic is likely related to the topic of the original work. You can search these with an article in mind or just by key word searching.
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| Scopus (Elsevier) |
| Indexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature...[more info] |
| Coverage: 1966 - present |
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| Web of Science (ISI) |
| [tutorial] The interface to this product will be changing January 3, 2008. |
| Citation index for science and social sciences...[more info] |
| Coverage: 1987 - present |
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Finding Information about Journals
Once you track down an article you might want to know more information about the journal where that article was published. Periodical Locator will tell you which journals JMU owns. The other two databases will provide information, such as impact factor, about journals.
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