Research Guides: Database by Content Type: Scholarly Journal Articles

Scholarly Journals & Popular Magazines

Databases offered by EBSCOhost and ProQuest contain articles from scholarly journals in addition to popular magazines.

If you are not clear the differences between scholarly journals and popular magazines, take a look at the Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals guide.

Listed below are just a small sample of databases that contain scholarly journal articles.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. It also includes magazines and newspaper articles. You can limit your search by date. Coverage varies from journal to journal.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides full text to an archive of scholarly journals covering a wide variety of disciplines such as ethnic studies, social sciences, art, business, economics, history, sciences, math, area studies, and language and literature.
OmniFile Full Text Mega This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications, and indexing and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications. This multi-disciplinary database covers all subject areas.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
It offers full-text current and archival articles from 600+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for over 540 titles on behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
Research Library (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Includes full text articles from scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and general interest magazines covering business, health & medicine, history, literature & language, science & technology, social sciences, and arts.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Consists of full-text articles from scholarly journals in applied, developmental, educational, social, experimental human and animal psychology, personality, psychological and physical disorders, physiological psychology and neuroscience, psychometrics and statistics, and sports psychology and leisure. Coverage varies from journal to journal with the oldest going back 1894.