Databases
The following multidisciplinary databases are the best bets for general research.
To search all our databases at once you can always use Primo, our all-in-one library search.
Check out the library's Primo tutorials for search tips and strategies.
If you want to know which database contains a specific journal, use our Journals Search. Need more help with your research? Check out our step-by-step guide, the Research Hub
Scholarly Databases
- Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary general database
- Access to more than 5,890 full-text scholarly journals.
- General, multi-disciplinary database with full-text access to over 4,500 publications
- Includes popular magazines like Essense and Vanity Fair as well as academic journals.
- Great resource for art, history, literature, general and social science
- Access to over 2,000 full-text scholarly journals
- Use this database for literature and criticism, political science, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, and gender studies
- Includes access to 600 full-text scholarly journals
Newspapers
Newspapers can be a great source of information for current issues and events. As well as gaining contemporary accounts and reactions to historic events.
(Note: some assignments require that you only use peer-reviewed scholarly resources. Be sure to double check the details of your assignment first.)
- Complete text of The New York Times going back to 1980.
- The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are also available
(Note: All SFC students and staff have free and unlimited access to the NY Times on their computer and mobile device. Check out our handy flyer for instructions).
- Full text access for more than 40 U.S. & international newspapers.
- Full text television & radio news transcripts are also accessible