A collection of social work and sociology indices, including Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, plus a number of full-text journals.
A full text archive of scholarly journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Note: A “moving wall” of generally three to five years exists between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. The “moving wall” moves forward each year. Coverage: From the beginning of each journal Type: Full text
A collection of full-text prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed. The content provided is current with some backfiles available. Type: Full text
An education database with over a million records. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) indexes journal articles and reports (documents) on a wide array of topics in the field of education. Some ERIC documents (issued 1993–2004) are now available full text. Also available are ERIC Digest articles, a collection of more than 2,000 shorter articles on topics of current interest to the education community.
A research tool for all aspects of nursing containing full-text scholarly journal articles, care sheets and quick lessons on diseases. Limit: 4 users at a time
The APA’s premier abstracting and indexing database to scholarly literature in psychology.
oogle Scholar
Google Scholar searches scholarly literature online. Rather than indexing web sites, the engine indexes articles, article and book citations, and theses.
Google Scholar has some advantages:
It's free to search.
It's accessible anywhere.
The "cited by" feature allows you to see what other articles have cited a particular piece of research.
The tool has nice limiting and refining options.
Articles you have access to through DeWitt are noted.
There are also disadvantages:
Not all of the results are free and accessible; many of them require payment or access to a database.
It does not index everything; many of our databases index more or better research.
There is no definition of what "scholarly" is; not all of the research you find may fit your professor's definition of scholarly.