Research Tools

Key Resources

Resources with broad coverage of many subjects

Academic Search Complete

Key Resource

Good place to start. Full text, scholarly articles on all subjects.

Key Resource

Information on social issues, including overviews, statistics, primary sources, websites, and full-text articles from a variety of perspectives.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Key Resource

A collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Google Scholar

Key Resource

Search Google for scholarly books and articles. Search results include links to items available via Feinberg Library.

Journal Search (Journals A-Z)

Key Resource

Find academic journals and other periodicals by searching or browsing by subject.

JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive

Key Resource

Complete archives of more than 1,300 core journals in humanities, social sciences and sciences.

Oxford Reference Online

Key Resource

Oxford Reference Online's Premium Collection combines quick reference coverage of the full subject spectrum with the rich resources of the Oxford Companions. From ready-reference to comprehensive scholarly articles, the Premium Collection provides reliable and authoritative answers to their research questions.

There are also enhanced search results for quick and easy retrieval of short and long subject reference entries, bilingual dictionaries, English dictionaries, and quotations & proverbs.

ScienceDirect

Key Resource

Full-text access to 250 key scientific, business, medical, and social sciences journals from Elsevier Publishing, and abstracts and metadata for 1500 more journals.

WorldCat FirstSearch

Key Resource

Contains over 52 million records in a single worldwide library catalog.

New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.

Coronavirus Research Database

Trial

Cross-disciplinary resource on coronavirus/COVID-19 that enables researchers to search and discover full-text articles, dissertations and other content from key publishers in one place.