Hiram College Library: Find: Find Articles (Databases/Indexes)

Where to Start

Academic Search Complete

A great starting point for research in many subjects. Includes thousands of full-text articles from both scholarly journals and popular magazines in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Watch Tutorials ▶️
Biosis Previews
The key indexing source in biology, it covers nearly 6,000 journals published around the world.
Business Source Complete

A one-stop place for business research. It has thousands of articles, scholarly journals (some going back over 100 years!), company profiles, industry reports, market research, SWOT analyses, and financial data. Watch Tutorials ▶️
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Strong in communication studies—includes full-text journals on organizational communication, public relations, crisis communication, leadership, and media analysis with coverage back as far as 1915.
Electronic Journal Center (EJC)

Full-text access to over 7,000 scholarly journals across many subjects—all in one searchable database.
JSTOR

Search and read full-text articles from nearly 1,000 scholarly journals. JSTOR has older journal issues going back to the very first but usually doesn’t include the most recent 3 to 5 years. It covers lots of subjects across many fields. Watch Tutorials ▶️
Medline (EBSCO)
The National Library of Medicine’s database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, and related areas. This EBSCO version adds full-text for a number of journals, as well as a Find It link for other citations so you can determine if the Hiram College Library provides access to that article.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Provides addresses, ad rates, and submission information for more than 4,400 periodicals regularly indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Provides full-text to nearly 500 journals in psychology, psychiatry, and anthropology.
PsycINFO

Indexes psychology articles and book chapters published worldwide from 1887 to the present. Great for finding peer-reviewed, empirical research across many psychology topics. Watch Tutorials ▶️

You can find articles in several ways.

Using a Library Subject Guide. Subject Guides have been built to give you some selected indexes for each of the Majors (subjects) at Hiram College. Each Guide has a section called "Articles" which will take you to a recommended list of indexes for the subject you are working in.
Our Database A to Z List.
Using a general topic index such as Academic Search Complete. ASC is a good starting point as it contains some material about many subjects. Usually you can get a good start on a research project here.

A Library Index, also called a database, is an electronic catalog that acts like a search engine usually covering one or more broad subject areas. Unlike a website engine like Google, library indexes contain records of articles and journals about those subject areas.

Some databases provide full text of an article, typically in PDF or HTML format. (If an article you have found does not have full text click on the button in order to search for other sources of the for same article.)
Other indexes contain other resources such as images, government documents, and book reviews.
Library Indexes help you search for articles in a particular topic.