Research Guides: CAL 103: Writing and Communication: Finding What You Need

Scholarly, Trade, and Popular Articles

Look for your topic in these Library databases for a variety of material, including academic research articles, trade publications, and popular sources.

Make your search more effective with the tips and tricks on the Database Search Help tab.

Best Bet

The Librarians recommend that you definitely try Academic Search Premier as it is broad in scope and includes a wide variety of material to use in your research.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Premier, an EBSCOhost database, is recommended for all subjects, including science, technology, engineering, social sciences, and humanities. Academic Search Premier contains a wide range of quality scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and trade publications. Access to this database is provided by the New Jersey State Library.

These are also great for Broad-Topic Searching

EBSCOhost Databases This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost serves as a search portal to a collection of academic research databases, including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, ERIC, GreenFILE, and MLA International Bibliography, among many others. To view the complete list of the databases available through EBSCOhost, click on "Choose Databases" on the EBSCOhost search page. Access to some of these databases is provided by the New Jersey State Library.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR, a scholarly database, provides access to scholarly journal articles on the arts, sciences, social sciences, management, mathematics, and statistics, as well as images and primary sources. As JSTOR is an archival database, full-text availability of most journals starts from their first year of publication, while more recently published journal content is available after an embargo period.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central provides access to a vast array of scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers from all over the world through databases including News & Newspapers, ABI/INFORM, Ebook Central, and many more. Recommended for all subjects.

News and Newspapers

While you'll find newspaper articles in some of the databases listed above, the databases included here are focused on newspapers and so will give you a better result when that's what you want.

News & Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Major national papers like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times as well as international news and newspapers of American metro areas.
New York Times Historical This link opens in a new window
How has your topic been discussed in recent American history? Search the full back run of the New York Times from 1851 through 2010 to find out.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni, a multidisciplinary database from the legal and business research company LexisNexis, provides the full text of newspapers and magazines published worldwide, as well as news transcripts, international, federal, and state legal and regulatory information, biographical information, and corporate reports.

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