Finding Articles
Periodical Databases by Subject
| General | Arts & Humanities | Biology & Science |
| Business | Education | News | Social Sciences |
PowerPacks | Trial Databases
All databases are accessible anywhere on campus.
Infotrac, MassachusettsNewsStand, HealthSource: Nursing/Academic, MLA International Bibliography, Literary Reference Center, Teacher Reference Center, American National Biography, Country Watch, and CQ Researcher are also available off campus.
General
FirstSearch — password required
Access to a wide range of subjects in 11 databases. Please see Reference Librarian for assistance.
Courtesy of funding provided by the MetroWest Massachusetts Regional Library Consortium.
InfoTrac
Fifteen different databases. Many articles available in full-text. InfoTrac is also available off campus.
Access to the PMC InfoTrac SearchBank databases is made possible by the Massachusetts Library and Information Network and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems. MLIN is a service of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. The Board of Library Commissioners is the agency of state government responsible for the improvement of library services throughout the Commonwealth. This project is funded by the State of Massachusetts.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
WorldCat
The most comprehensive catalog of books and other materials in the world. Use borrow from other libraries page to request items through Interlibrary Loan.
Arts & Humanities
Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select (Infotrac)
An extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.
Literary Reference Center
Provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.
Courtesy of funding provided by the MetroWest Massachusetts Regional Library Consortium.
MLA International Bibliography
A literature database offering detailed bibliographies of journal articles, books and dissertations
from the Modern Language Association (MLA). Coverage is international and dates back to the 1920s.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
The entries list contact information, scope
of each publication, circulation figures, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.
Biology & Science
AccessScience
Full-text access to articles and research updates in all areas of science and technology — updated daily.
Directory of Open Access Journals
A searchable directory providing access to scientific and medical journals published online. Search the full-text collection of over 63,000 articles.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic
This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
InfoTrac
Seven different databases, including Expanded Academic ASAP. Many articles available in full-text. InfoTrac is also available off campus.
PubMed Central
The U.S. National Institutes of Health's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Business
CountryWatch
Full-text geopolitical information on each of the 192 countries of the world.
General BusinessFile ASAP (Infotrac)
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
Education
FirstSearch — password required
Access to a wide range of subjects in 11 databases. Please see Reference Librarian for assistance.
Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Courtesy of funding provided by the MetroWest Massachusetts Regional Library Consortium.
News
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
Massachusetts NewsStand — off-campus access
Provides full text access to the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, The Berkshire Eagle, BusinessWest (Chicopee), The North Adams Transcript, The Patriot Ledger (Quincy),
Plymouth County Business Review, Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg), The Sun (Lowell), Telegram & Gazette (Worcester), Gazette (Haverhill), Standard Times (New Bedford).
Courtesy of funding from the MetroWest Massachusetts Regional Library Consortium.
Powerpacks
Power Pack are Custom collections built around specific subjects or topics. Each Power Pack combines select periodical titles with reference content. To see all of the available Power Pack click here.
Social Sciences
American National Biography
17,000 full-text biographies of deceased Americans whose lives have 'shaped the nation.' Includes illustrations and web site links. Published by Oxford Univ. Press.
CountryWatch
Full-text geopolitical information on each of the 192 countries of the world.
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides in-depth reports on current, hot, and controversial topics such as "Embryo Research," "Rethinking Ritalin," "Drinking on Campus," and "Subsidized Access to the Internet for the Poor." CQ offers balanced introductions to these issues and includes a generous selection of cross-references to past reports, as well as excellent tables and graphs.
Directory of Open Access Journals
A searchable directory providing access to
social science journals published online. Search the full-text collection of over 63,000 articles.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
PsycINFO
The premier database from the American Psychological Association, covering the world's literature in psychology.