LIBRARY RESOURCES

Rutgers University Libraries
(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu)

This web site gives access to all the print and electronic holdings purchased by the Rutgers University Libraries, plus resource lists and pathfinders constructed by information professionals across the system. You need to obtain a barcode and a PIN number from a circulation desk in order to borrow or request any materials from the Rutgers system. You need to obtain a NetID to use Library resources remotely (from home or work).

Periodical Articles

Click on FIND ARTICLES -> Indexes and Databases -> By Title. Click on Academic Search Premier (Ebscohost).

This multidisciplinary database indexes periodicals in many different fields and on many different levels, from general interest to scholarly. Students find it a handy place to begin searches because it is partly full text and because it covers so many different subjects. However, you might find that you need something more. Rutgers offers you more than 180 periodical indexes and databases in many subject areas. Don't stop here if you need additional information.

Click on FIND ARTICLES -> Indexes and Databases -> By Title. Click on Wilson OmniFile Full Text.

This multidisciplinary database "provides electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of periodicals and journals in all core undergraduate subjects" --from the Rutgers database information page.

How to Find The Full Text of Periodical Articles

• Go to the Rutgers University Libraries homepage.
  
  
• Click on SEARCH IRIS AND OTHER CATALOGS to find the periodicals owned by the Rutgers Libraries. Below the IRIS Quick Search box, use the pull-down menu to select 'PERIODICAL TITLE begins with'; this title is often found in periodical indexes under "Source".
  
  
• Look at the periodical record. (The online record for a given periodical title may be separate from the print record, but is usually found within the non-microform record as electronic access.)

Newspaper Articles

Click on FIND ARTICLES -> Indexes and Databases -> By Title. Click on Proquest Historical Newspapers: New York Times.

This database provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 until two years ago.

Find recent articles in major metropolitan newspapers including the New York Times in Factiva or LexisNexis Academic.