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Popular Databases
Credo
A database of dictionaries and encyclopedias in all areas. Best for background and contextual information, fact-checking.
Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary. Best for access to both scholarly and popular journals in broad areas of academic study.
JSTOR
Focus Area: Humanities and Social Sciences. Best for peer-reviewed full-text articles in academic journals. However, some journals may not include articles from the last 1-5 years
Arts (Proquest Arts)
Focus areas: Fine Arts, music, theater, dance and other performing arts. Use this suite of databases to find current and retrospective scholarly journal articles, historic newspapers articles, full-text dissertations, and more. Link to full text.
EconLit
Focus area: Economics. Best for journal articles and working papers.
MLA Bibliography
Focus area: literary criticism of works in modern languages. Access to scholarly articles and essays in collections.
PsycINFO
Focus area: Psychology and psychological aspects of related fields. Best for journal articles and abstracts.
Scopus
Focus Area: sciences and most social science disciplines. Best for: scholarly journal articles, topic review articles, abstracts and conference papers.
Newspapers
Guide with links to the collections of electronic newspapers Colby subscribes to. Includes directions for access to current subscriptions to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.