Find Articles
Using the Library Databases
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Need to find a journal, magazine or newspaper article? Not in the library? You can find articles 24 hours a day in the Faulkner library databases.
To access library databases, your username and password are the STUDENT ID # & PASSWORD you use to log in to the Faulkner Network.
To begin your search from this page, you can...
-- select a subject in the blue area on the left side of the screen,
-- use the federated search tool to look for articles in multiple databases,
-- choose a general database from the list below,
-- look in one of two major reference ebook collections below,
-- try combining sources from the same vendor in the aggregation area below, or
-- find out if any Faulkner databases index a certain periodical in Journal Finder.
FEDERATED SEARCHING
Search Databases from Multiple Vendors Here
EbscoHost Federated Search
This is new for Faulkner. Search databases from Ebsco, ProQuest, and Gale in one transparently coordinated search. Federated means gathered into one place for searching on a common platform. You choose the databases to search or leave out. Choose all, choose individually, or choose by topical group.
This is the most powerful tool available to Faulkner University for an initial, exploratory search for articles.
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GENERAL DATABASES
Academic OneFile provides more than 10,000 peer-reviewed journals with fact-based, reliable, unbiased content. It includes strong coverage of hard sciences, medicine, engineering and business.
Academic Search
Premier has information in nearly every area of academic study and includes full-text for more than 4,600 journals, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
This is a premier product from Newsbank with comprehensive coverage of current events. Search current and archived state, national, and international full-text articles on issues, events, business, government, and more with over 4,700 newspapers such as the Anniston Star, Birmingham News, Press-Register, and USA Today.
General OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource that provides access to more than 60 million articles. It contains more than 11,000 titles and back file coverage from 1980 to present.
MasterFILE Premier is a multidisciplinary database with full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. The database also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context a full
text resource covering today’s controversial social issues such as
terrorism and gun control. Drawing on the print series by the same
name, the database brings together information needed to understand an
issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles to provide
context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers,
primary sources, statistical information, and more.
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MAJOR REFERENCE SOURCES
Britannica Academic Edition Online is a comprehensive research tool that offers accurate and up to date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies. The database covers business, telecommunications, computers, technology, systems, law and more. From Encyclopedia Britannica via AVL.
A broad search tool made up of hundreds of digital reference products. Many of the results pages are now linked back to other Faulkner Databases.
Gale Virtual Reference Library allows searching of a vast collection of electronic reference books provided by the Alabama Virtual Library. The interface for GVRL was recently updated and is much more engaging and easy to use.
Oxford Reference Online offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including historic timelines.
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SINGLE-VENDOR DATABASE AGGREGATION
This is similar to federated searching, but all databases are from one vendor.
This is a group of over 20 databases from Gale Cengage that can be combined by their subject coverage for simultaneous cross-searching.
Includes the content of six main databases from H. W. Wilson now owned by Ebsco, along with full text content from five other Wilson databases. All of these resources are now included in the Ebsco Federated Searching tool.
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FULL-TEXT JOURNAL COVERAGE
Faulkner buys most of its journal subscriptions from a company called W. T. Cox. That company produces a software product called Journal Finder, which you can use to find out if there is a full-text version of an article you want for your paper or project. Journal Finder directs you to other online sources, especially when you have an abstract but not full text. It can also direct you to Faulkner's printed or microform periodicals. Finally, if there are no other options, it can help you request an article on interlibrary loan. One way or another you can get full-text articles using Journal Finder!
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