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Article Databases

These are good sources to do some searching in for your topical literature review.

Remember that you can search several databases at once in EBSCO by clicking "Choose Databases."

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

Google Scholar
Add Earlham College under "Library Links" (within Settings) to access content within library database subscriptions. Google Scholar can also be used for citation searching - look for the "Cited By" link beneath the description of the article/item.

Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides sources covering a wide array of subjects, including addiction studies, ethics, public welfare, urban studies and more. Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text resource provides access to the most important English-language social science journals.
PsycINFO (remember to add APA PsycArticles) This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts the international literature of psychology, 1887 to present.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 30 important anthropology journals, in many cases from the first date a journal was published up to the present issue.
ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts articles, books, theses, conference proceedings, and unpublished papers in education, 1966 to present.

Earlham Libraries Catalog & Beyond This link opens in a new window
Catalog of books, media, and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries. Also searches libraries worldwide through WorldCat.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Contains over 140,000 ebooks that you can read online or download. Titles also appear in the Library Catalog, but going direct through this link will let you search the full-text of all the books and browse every title. (Formerly ebrary.)

Google Books
This site offers full text, and photos, for out of copyright books, and "snippets" for those not in the public domain. The snippets themselves can be useful, and may lead you to interlibrary loan requests.

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