Indexes
Use these indexes to find articles on current, policy, general, and popular topics. Some of these identify scholarly sources. Once found, evaluate each article. Always identify and locate (and at least skim) more articles than are required for an assignment. To find the best sources possible, make comparisons among several articles.
Academic Search Premier. Dates of coverage vary by title. Updated daily.
Covers multidisciplinary topics. Includes scholarly journals and full text of some articles; articles in PDF have images. "4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles." Limit by published date to identify recent articles on topics. Subject terms not as refined as in other databases, so it will be necessary to do multiple searches on topics. Can do image search (under "More" at very top of initial page).
Article First. 1990- . Updated daily.
Covers business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture.
LexisNexis Academic: News. Dates of coverage vary; source list has coverage dates for individual periodicals.
For very current topics change the "Specify date" menu near foot of page to "today," "previous week," or "previous month." Default is "US Newspapers and Wires" (which has articles from the world's major newspapers, magazines and trade publications), but this may be changed to other categories such as "Major World Papers" (over 40 newspapers from around the world) or "Magazine Stories, Combined" (a wide range of magazines and their articles) by using the drop-down (or drop-up) menu.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. 1900- . AI 3 .R48 Reference South
General interest periodicals. Be certain to check in the front of this index for the full title of abbreviated journal titles in years before 1988. (Readers' Guide began including complete journal titles in its citations in 1988.)
Social Sciences Abstracts. 1988- (abstracts begin Jan. 1994). Updated monthly.
Covers journals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science and law.
Social Sciences Index. 1907- . (Title varies.) AI 3. I496 Reference South
Covers journals in anthropology, criminal justice, economics, family studies, geology, international relations, law, minority studies, political science, psychology, social work, sociology, women's studies, and other related areas. Be certain to check in the front of the index to find out the full title of the abbreviated journal titles found in this index.