Indexes
These are some good periodical indexes. Some of them even make available full text of articles — either for free or a fee. However, some of the best periodical indexes are available through your library. They probably have some with free full text, and they probably offer it via their Web page. You don't even need to leave the house; you just need a library card. If you live in the U.S., see my U.S. Libraries page to find your nearest library. Otherwise, use one of my other library directories.
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Periodical Indexes |
Journal Publishers' Sites |
Indexes to Historical Journals |
Back Issues of Periodicals |
Dissertations and Theses |
Bibliographies
Periodical Indexes
- British Library Direct - Combines an index with document delivery (for a fee) from one of the largest libraries in the world (one with a long history of interlibrary loan/document delivery service)
- Find Articles - Search many popular magazines, get full text articles (some for a fee)
- Free Full Text.com - Over 7,000 scholarly periodicals (some of them with only a few issues free, however)
- High Beam - Millions of articles from journals and reference books, some for a fee (includes eLibrary)
- HighWire Press - Full-text journals in the sciences and social sciences
- Infotrieve ArticleFinder - Free searching, articles available for a fee
- IngentaConnect - Searching is free, but they charge a fee for the articles. When browsing for a particular periodical title, be sure to check both those with articles available online and those with articles available by fax. The original Internet periodical index (formely Uncover)
- Magportal - Free index pointing to free full text articles
- Google Scholar
- Yahoo Search Subscriptions - Search specialized sources that require a subscription. You will still need a subscription to access the full text, however.
- See also Book Content Search Engines and Open Archives
- CUFTS - An open source OpenURL link resolver for library consortia, but you can use it to find out which indexes (full-text and otherwise) include the journal you're looking for.
- JAKE: Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment - Find out which full text indexes include the journal you're looking for. A wonderful service! (Warning: Not updated since 2002.)
- Free Journal Indexes and Databases (Washington University, St. Louis)
- Publications Archives (Researchbuzz)
- For more indexes, see:
- Agriculture Bibliographies and Indexes
- Anthropology Index
- Astronomy Index
- Baseball Index
- Biology Index and Preprints
- Book Content Search Engines
- Botany Indexes
- Chemistry Indexes
- Criminal Justice Index
- Demography Indexes
- Earth Science Indexes
- Economics Research
- Education Indexes
- Energy Index
- Engineering Indexes
- Gender Studies Index
- Jewish Indexes
- Latin American Bibliography
- Library Periodical Indexes
- Literary Reference
- Math Preprints and Indexes
- Medical Indexes
- Military Science Indexes
- Open Archives
- Ornithology Indexes
- Physics Indexes and Preprints
- Polar Regions Libraries and Bibliographies
- Psychological Research
- Primatology Index
- Reproductive Health Index
- Scientific Research and Indexes
- U.S. Government Documents
- Water Indexes
- See also Magazines and Journals and E-Journals for directories and individual periodicals
Academic Search Engines:
Use these sites to narrow your search to academic materials, both on the free Web and in pay-per-view journal archives. Your library probably has other databases you can search for academic content and journal articles.
Web Directories:
Journal Publishers' Sites
- Blackwell Journals
- Cambridge Journals Online
- Sage Publications
- Science Direct - Elsevier site
- Springer (including Kluwer)
- Wiley InterScience
- See also journal publishers in Library and Information Science and Water and related fields
- E-mail Alerting Services of Major Publishers/Vendors (Chinese University of Hong Kong library)
Many of these publishers provide indexes or tables of contents for their journals. However, you will have to pay if you want to get the full text of articles. For scholarly journals that make their articles available free, see Open Access Journals. See also Magazine and Journal Directories.
Directories of Journal Publishers:
Indexes to Historical Journals
- Internet Library of Early Journals - Six important British journals from the 18th and 19th centuries, scanned and indexed
- Research Society for American Periodicals: Resources - Links to many sources for the full text of periodicals, not just American and not just historic
- See also Making of America for 19th Century American journals
Back Issues of Periodicals
- Back Issue Finder - Includes ephemera and other printed collectibles, as well as back issues of magazines
Dissertations and Theses
- Dissertation Express - Search here if you know the author or exact title of the dissertation you want.
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses - A more complete database of dissertations. Ask your library if they subscribe
Dissertations from UMI Proquest
Ph.D. dissertations from almost every American university are available in PDF (or print) for a reasonable fee. Some master's theses are available, too.
- Australian Digital Theses Program - Ph.D. dissertations and master's theses in full-text.
- British Thesis Service (British Library)
- Deposit DDB.DE - German dissertations and theses and other electronic documents (Die Deutsche Bibliothek)
- ETD Individuals - Repository of electronic theses and dissertations for individuals whose institutions don't have their own repositories
- Foreign Doctoral Dissertations - Database of dissertations from universities outside the United States and Canada (Center for Research Libraries)
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) - Full text of theses and dissertations from member institutions
- Theses Canada - Collection of dissertations and theses dates back to 1965; full text available for theses from 1998-2002 (Library and Archives Canada)
Bibliographies
- See Bibliographies