Five Resources I Use Every Day
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Project Muse
Full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University
Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Terri's notes: I find this the most user friendly of all the databases. It
allows you to print from HTML or in PDF form.
J-Stor (Scholarly Journal Storage)
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly
journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics
and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Terri's notes: Be
sure to check both J-Stor AND Project Muse, since they tend to cover different
journals in overlapping fields.
ProQuest
This is where I search for newspaper and magazine coverage on topics.
ProQuest Digital
Dissertations
This is what it sounds like. Dissertations from your home school are usually
free; others are available at a cost to you. Really useful for estoteric stuff.
Abstracts are useful for those hunting for dissertation topics.
ACM Portal. Here is
where you can find ALL of the proceedings of EVERY Association of Computing
Machinery conference (e.g. SIGGRAPH, CHI, etc.) Super handy for geek researchers.