ENGLISH 1120
FINDING FULL-TEXT ARTICLES ON GENERAL SUBJECTS
Available from the list of Indexes and Databases by Subject
FULL-TEXT means: the complete article is available electronically through your computer and often can be e-mailed, downloaded to a floppy, or printed out. If not available in full-text, you will have to search AubieCAT to find the magazine/journal in our library.
INDEXES AND DATABASES means: collections of articles and citations to articles. These electronic products have been purchased through AU Libraries. THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS SURFING THE INTERNET.
InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP
1000 journals/magazines, 500 in full-text. Covers all disciplines, incl. general interest magazines. Most of full-text only covers last seven years; some goes back 15 years. Indexing also varies, but goes no further back than 1980. Allows search for peer-reviewed articles.
EbscoHost Academic Search Elite
Full-text of 1200 journals in the 1990s; indexing of 3000 journals going back to 1984. (1,700 peer-reviewed). Allows search for peer-reviewed articles in advanced search mode only.
LEXIS-NEXIS® Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference
information.
Electric Library
Hundreds of magazines, newspapers, etc. EVERYTHING IN FULL-TEXT.
Allows natural language searching or keyword.
Intended for K-12, but can be useful for college students. SPECIAL FEATURE is its transcriptions of TV & radio news program, like 60 Minutes and Nightline.
(ALL OF THESE DATABASES ARE PURCHASED BY THE LIBRARY FOR STUDENT USE. THEY ARE NOT PART OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB.)
ENGLISH 1120
FINDING INFORMATION THROUGH THE WORLD WIDE WEB
OR THE INTERNET
A few humble suggestions from your friendly librarians:
++Single Search Engines (like AltaVista, Google, AskJeeves)
++Meta Search Engines (like Metacrawler and Dogpile)
++Subject Directories (like Yahoo! and Britannica Internet Guide)
(NOTE that Britannica gives stars, doing the evaluating for you.)
Just remember: when you are finding articles through the Databases by Title or Databases by Subject pages, you are NOT really on the Internet.
(This handout is available online at: http://www.lib.auburn.edu/bi/1120guide.html)
J. Jenkins/ August 2001