Database Searching
Getting Started
Below are multi-disciplinary databases all covering a wide range of subject areas and resource types. These are great places to start if you are beginning to research a topic or are just exploring. For more subject specific databases, click on the 'Databases & Articles' tab to the left.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
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ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowDiscover extensive, foundational full-text scholarly content from journals, magazines, news sources, trade publications and more. Users can access content from Springer, Cambridge University Press, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and more. This dynamic, multidisciplinary resource delivers coverage aligned to discipline-specific curriculum and is enhanced with video, ebooks, A&I resources, and primary sources, making it the ideal resource to support successful research from start to finish.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar provides a broad search that includes selected research papers, professional society and interest group publications, conference reports, book summaries, and media reports. Results include abstracts and citations, drafts, works in progress, reprints, and peer-reviewed journal articles. Not everything in Google Scholar is free. This link to Google Scholar connects you to the full-text of articles provided through RU Library journal subscriptions.
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