The Harper College Library offers a wide variety of online resources to students who are searching for magazine, journal and newspaper articles. Many of these databases include some full-text articles, others provide only citations and/or abstracts of articles.

For an explanation of the student log-in procedure from OFF-CAMPUS, please click here.

To begin searching these indexes and databases, click here.

What is a "full-text" article?

What is the difference between a popular magazine and a scholarly journal?

How do I cite articles from electronic databases? Click here.

If you would like more information about using these online resources to search for articles, the following descriptions may be helpful to you:

EbscoHost - Twenty-two databases from which to choose, search several at one time. Highlights include: Academic Search Complete, a general resource with many full-text articles; MLA, the world's premier database of citations from literary journals and books, a must for students doing literary research; business Search Elite, full-text articles from over 1,000 business periodicals; PsycInfo, citations and abstracts for over one million articles in the field of Psychology; Health Source, both Nursing/Academic and Consumer, provides full-text articles for the medical professional and the layperson.

FirstSearch - 13 databases, mostly periodicals, but WorldCat is the world's largest book catalog, allowing patrons to search the catalogs of libraries world-wide.

Literature Resource Center: The place to begin for online research on authors and their works, and when searching for literary criticism. This resource from Gale Publications provides full-text reprinted articles from scholarly literary journals and a number of excellent Reference book series on Literature, Literary Biography and Literary Criticism.

Literature Reference Center
Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, the Literature Resource Center is the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

World Access News - The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources.

College Source - Over 15,000 college catalogs online, plus college guides, links to college/university WWW pages and more. An invaluable resource for students needing to transfer to a four year college or university.

The Oxford English Dictionary Online - the most comprehensive dictionary in the English language.

Encyclopædia Britannica - Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Trial Databases - See what new trial databases we have available this semester! We are continually working to improve and expand our online resources.

Last Updated 07/22/08