Broad collection of scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in most academic subjects. A great starting point for any topic!
Academic Search Complete contains 18,000+ multidisciplinary titles indexed and abstracted (16,000+ are peer-reviewed) and 9,000+ full-text publications. Strength and weakness: very broad, so searchers are likely to find results, but may be overwhelmed by quantity. INSPIRE.
Full-text of core academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
JSTOR is a collection of scholarly journal articles in the humanities and social sciences. It's entire collection contains around 2,000 journals, although local access will vary. These are subscriptions, and chosen individually, so each collection will reflect the focus of the institution. The collection's strength lies in its complete back issues of journal titles, while a weakness is a "moving wall" limiting access to the most recent journal issues. Subscription.
Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 519 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 12,200+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond. Newspapers provide a unique view of the past and can help us understand and connect with the people, events and attitudes of an earlier time.
Digital access to current and past issues of The New York Times since its inception.
The New York Times provides complete digital access to its daily content, including world news, arts and culture, technology, science and more. Searches of past issues may be done by date (since 1851!), section, and type of entry, including graphics and videos. Subscription.
**Soon to be completely folded into JSTOR. The visual version of JSTOR, providing approximately 300,000 images. It includes architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects, and visual and material culture more generally.
"The primary sources of the Smithsonian document the history of art, culture, music, design, flight, space exploration, science and technology, landscapes and gardens, and native cultures in the United States, as well as the long history of the Smithsonian itself. "
"Access nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items across the Smithsonian's collections--including 19 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo."
Digital access to current and past issues of The New York Times since its inception.
The New York Times provides complete digital access to its daily content, including world news, arts and culture, technology, science and more. Searches of past issues may be done by date (since 1851!), section, and type of entry, including graphics and videos. Subscription.
