Research Guides: Lewis Honors College: Databases

Frequently-Used Databases

Academic Search Complete
Multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.

Dissertations and Theses
As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes content from the UK and Ireland. Contributions are added each year from 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, along with collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Finding a dissertation or thesis related to your topic can be a great way to find additional resources.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides a wide array of resources including the Social Sciences Citation Index which provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 8,600 scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines, as well as numerous other indexes. Web of Science offers Journal Citation Reports which shows you the total number of cites for a particular journal as well as the journal's impact factor. Web of Science provides cited reference searches which allow you to search for items that cite a particular article. This can be very helpful as it can lead you to more relevant works in your area of interest. Visit http://libguides.uky.edu/WOS for tips on using Web of Science.

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Finding a Known Item

What if you are asked to find a specific article for class? This 90 second video will detail how to find a specific article and a specific book at UK Libraries.

How to Get Full-Text

When searching for journal articles, you will notice the View Now button on many of your search results. Clicking on the View Now button will lead you to links for the full-text of the article or let you know that we do not have electronic full-text for that article.

If the full-text is not available, you can search InfoKat Discovery for a hardcopy of the article or request an interlibrary loan (ILL), if needed.

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Google Scholar

It's a great idea to check Google Scholar along with other databases. Follow these instructions to connect Google Scholar results to UK's full text holdings.

Lewis Honors College: Databases