Library Guides: Appalachian Studies &amp; Resources: Finding Articles

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Articles Plus covers many different sources—but not everything! The selected databases below are not included in ArticlesPlus.

BIOSIS Previews
Provides broad coverage of all life science research, including medical literature published in botanical, zoological, and microbiological journals.
Geobase
Indexes to articles (1973 to the present) about geography, earth sciences, ecology, planning, geology and remote sensing from journals, books, proceedings, reports and dissertations.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Indexes articles (1874 to the present) from "nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes."
International Index to Performing Arts
Article database covering more than 200 journals (with full text for about 50 of them) in the subject areas of dance, film, drama, opera, stagecraft, comedy, pantomime, puppetry, magic, radio, and television.
PubMed [Health and Medicine]
A service of the National Library of Medicine that provides access to over 14 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life sciences journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Social Services Abstracts
Indexes journals (from 1979 to the present) focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
SocINDEX with Full Text [Sociology]
Comprehensive article database with abstracts for more than 590 "core" Sociology journals dating back to 1895.

The video below outlines the process for getting from a reference in a database to the full text of an article, using ArticlesPlus as an example. The process is similar for many other databases.

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Appalachian Studies & Resources

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