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Find Magazine & Journal Articles

The resources listed below are just some of the subject-focused indexes to journal and magazine articles available through the MSU Libraries. Go to our indexes and databases page to see all of your options. Many of the online indexes provide easy access to the full-text of articles; other older indexes are in print format and you may need help finding the text of the articles you identify in them. ASK FOR HELP!

Academic Search Complete (1975 or so to present)
Access the full text of multi-disciplinary popular magazine and academic journal articles -- dates vary but most content does not go back further than the 1970s.
America: History and Life (1963-present)
Find scholarly journal articles covering all periods in the fields of U.S. and Canadian history.
American Periodicals Series Online (1741-mid 20th C)
This online database includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the mid-20th century. Find advertisements, illustrations, and the full text of articles.
American West: Sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection (1700s-mid 1900s)
The Graff Collection is a full text, full image database from the Newberry Library in Chicago that allows scholars to explore many areas of history in the American West through a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources.
Historical Newspapers (1851-2004)
Search the full-text of New York Times (1851-2004), Wall Street Journal (1889-1990) and Washington Post (1877-1991) simultaneously.
Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957)
This is a PRINT index to journal and trade articles on important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry from 1913 to 1957. An excellent resource for tracking down important studies, exploring historical controversies, finding papers by innovators, researching the development of a particular technology, and more.
JSTOR (varies: 1800s to last three years)
Offers full-text access to scholarly journals across disciplines, but mainly in the humanities and social sciences. Journal titles are fully digitized from their first volume through all but the most current 3 years.
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-2001)
This is a PRINT index to magazine articles published between 1900-2001. The index volumes (generally one published per year) are located in the Reference stacks on the 1st floor of the library at REF AI3.R4. Ask for help at the Reference desk.
Additional Subject Databases at MSU
Look for information about your community and/or industry in the literature of economics, law, agriculture, the news...
Biography and Genealogy Resources at MSU
The databases and resources linked here should also be supplemented with searching the library catalog for books about the person you are interested in.
Business Databases at MSU
Although mainly interested in post 1980 information, the databases in this area will give you a current or recent historical look at specific companies and industries.
More History Databases at MSU
Including databases focused on finding government documents, biographical information, Native American resources, MSU extension publications, historical newspapers, and much more.

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Finding Full Text

The full text of many articles is available through our databases. If the full text of a specific article doesn't seem to be linked directly from the database, here are your other options for getting the full text.

Use the link within a database. If the article is in a journal to which we subscribe, you will either get linked right to that article (electronic access) or be linked into the library catalog to get a call number so you can find the journal in the library (print access). If we don't subscribe to the journal, you will find a link to get in to interlibrary loan - make a request and we will get a copy from another library for you.

If you have a citation for which you are trying to find full text, use the JournaList to look for the journal by title. The JournaList is a list of all our periodicals holdings, both electronic and print. If we subscribe, the JournaList is a quick way to find that out. Again, if we do have he journal, you will be linked to electronic access or to the catalog to get a call number. The JournaList can be found on the library's home page.

If the library does not subscribe to a journal, you can request your article through interlibrary loan and we will get a copy for you from another library. You log in to ILLiad using the same username and password you use for D2L (Banner number or Net/ID and associated password). Again, you can get to interlibrary loan from the library's home page.

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