Henry Buhl Library: POLS 277: Research Methods: Find Books & Articles

Find Books & eBooks

OR search for print & eBooks separately

Search HENRY
Search Original Henry. Browse by Subject Heading for best results.

EBSCO eBook Collection
Access to over 200,000 full text eBooks across a variety of subjects.

TIPS

Browse HENRY by subject
When you find useful books on your topic, use the subject headings in the catalog records to locate related books.
Use the bibliographies in books to expand your search (tips for determining if a citation is for a book, a journal article, or a chapter in an edited book).

Need a book the library does not own?

You can request the book through Interlibrary Loan. Learn more and access the form here.

To search for books available in other libraries, try using

WorldCat -- Search the holdings of more than 10,000 libraries to locate books and identify citation information.

Library of Congress -- Access to the Library of Congress catalog and other online collections.

NOTE: Users do not need to identify a library that owns the book. Simply provide the appropriate information on the form and library staff will do the rest!

Journal & Newspaper Article Databases

Journal Article Databases

Academic Search Premier
Covers a wide range of subject matter in both popular and scholarly periodicals.

Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and nearly 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
SocINDEX
Full text of journal articles, as well as indexing and informative abstracts for "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895.
Social Science Citation Index (Web of Science)
Social Sciences Citation Index provides access to 3,000 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines.
JSTOR
Archival Database of full text scholarly journal articles.
Project Muse
Access to scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Military & Government Collection
Access to military and government resources.

Newspaper Databases

Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

Journal articles are very specific.

Finding articles is easier after you have read up on your topic.

Use more than one article database.

No database searches everything.
For thorough research, use more than one database and try different search terms.

A to Z List of Journals
Always check the A to Z list to see if we have access to the journal title and date of publication you need!

Need an article that isn't full text? Access the request form below.

Document Delivery Forms

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Use this database to verify Peer-reviewed/Scholarly status!