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America: History & Life

Best database for United States and Canadian history. Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Allows you to search by journal name. Each article is summarized.

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Covers prehistory to current events. Includes articles written from 1964 to the present.

History Cooperative

This non-profit humanities resource has the full-text of thousands of articles from some of the most prestigious history journals, all free. You can search all the articles by subject or limit a subject search to a certain journal. You can also browse the tables of contents for each issue.

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Literature Resource Center - LRC

Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from various time periods
and genres. NOTE that the critical analyses tend to be book
reviews. To find references to scholarly literary criticism, search MLA Bibliography.

Coverage:

Covers more than 100,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,400 of the most-studied authors.

City and County Data Book

This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. Allows you to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000).

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This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books.

Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

Coverage:

Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Coverage:

1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

Coverage:

Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

Coverage:

Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

Coverage:

Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles