LibGuides: New Student Information About Webster University Library: Articles

Use these general databases to find scholarly articles and more.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
A scholarly multi-disciplinary full-text database with indexing and abstracts for nearly 3,930 scholarly journals (many dating back to 1984). Full-text is available for over 2,940 scholarly publications. The database covers nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
A great starting point for articles on business and management topics including peer-reviewed journals and classic publications such Harvard Business Review. Select Company Information from the navigation bar to search by company name and retrieve links to articles and SWOT, industry, market research reports.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital archive of scholarly journals. Note that our subscription is for the following collections: Arts & Sciences II and Arts & Sciences III. Subject areas covered by these two collections include: economics, history, Asian studies, archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies, language and literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.
Project Muse
Provides access to over 200 full-text scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other academic publishers. Its coverage of the humanities and social sciences includes the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, gender studies and many others. The database allows searching of the full-text across all journals in the database or by selected journal titles
SocIndex with Full Text
Subareas include "...subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others" (vendor description).

Scopus
Scopus is a major index for scientific, medical, technical, and social science journals - over 16,000 of which are peer reviewed. Scopus also indexes Web sites and patents. Features of the database include journal impact factors and the ability to analyze citations.

You get an assignment and you have to have a certain number of articles. Ok. Now what?

We have a lot of databases. Over 150! This is because we support a lot of programs and different databases have articles on different subjects.
The way to figure out which database to use is by looking at the Database main page and picking which subject you're doing research in.
Or, you could start with our biggest general and multidisciplinary database, Academic Search Complete. That means it covers every subject.
Visit this page for more information on searching and finding the full text of an article.
And remember - we're here to help you! If you have questions or have been searching for 20 minutes and haven't found anything, ask us for help.

New Student Information About Webster University Library