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Journal Article Databases

Use these databases to find secondary sources that inform your primary sources. Use to check whether full text is available online or in print as well as to make requests via ILL. More information about Get it!

Multi-disciplinary

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE Premium collection This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete (1975-present) This link opens in a new window
Also includes full-text access to over 5,000 journals. Offers coverage of many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
The world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Contains over 46 million records, 70% with abstracts, and also includes over 4.6 million conference papers. NOTE: Click "Institutions" icon in right corner. Change organization to Washington University in St Louis John M Olin Library, Danforth Campus.

Google Scholar
Primo
Primo is the Washington University Libraries' new search tool. It provides one-stop access to the Libraries’ collections by searching across hundreds of catalogs, indexes, and databases.

Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
index to millions of articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It spans 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences. Periodicals Index Online currently indexes over 20 million articles going as far back as 1665 in over 60 languages and dialects, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Periodicals Index Online covers not only journals published by academic presses but also those journals published as popular reading.

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History

Historical Abstracts (1955-) This link opens in a new window
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
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Literature