Depending on your topic, you may wish to look at articles from databases and publications that focus on your topic area. There are two ways to approach this: first, you can look at guides that have been developed on an academic area related to your topic, and choose databases from that guide to search for articles. Second, you can look at our Databases A to Z list and search through the listings for databases related to your topic.
Watch: Articles & More (Burke, 3:00 min., 2018) or Focusing Your Search in Articles & More (Burke, 2:17 min., 2020)
When you search a database for a "Full Text" item, you are only searching through that particular database for the document in full-text, and not our entire collection. An item may exist as a "Full Text" selection within a different database.
If you don't find an item as full-text in the database you're searching, use the "Find It" button to cross-search other databses for that same item. You may discover that we have electronic access to that material after all.