Research gateway
Article indexes (Ebsco, etc.), Web research, Tutorials, etc.

Check this out!

 

CCC Library
Article Indexes

About Article Indexes    CCC Periodicals List     Indexes available through CCC   
Other indexes:  Free   Commercial    Multnomah County Public Library

   Indexes available through CCC Library's subscriptions
[CCC students and staff may access these resources from off-campus; please contact the Reference Desk (x2290) to obtain the passwords.]
EBSCO

Best source for magazine and journal articles. Includes Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, CINAHL, MEDLINE and many more indexes. (Help Sheet)

Video examples:
    1. The basics (online games addiction)
    2. Limiting to the best articles of a large result set (human trafficking)
    3. Using the Subject Browse for precision searching (germ warfare)
    4. Using geographic terms (global warming in oregon)
NewsBank
Access World News:
selected full-text articles from over 1700 newspapers worldwide. (Coverage varies; the latest 2-3 years are available for most titles, some titles go back 10-20 years.)
The Oregonian:
full-text articles, 1988-present
The New York Times
2000 - present
ProQuest New York Times (Historical)
(1851-2002)

Building Green

Click here for Off Campus access

Building Green Full text access to Environmental Building News, GreenSpec Products Directory and Project Case Studies

CQ Researcher

 CQ Researcher
Background reports on current "hot topics," a new topic each week.

Useful article indexes freely available to the public over the Web
Medline Plus MedLine Plus (www.medlineplus.gov)
Articles on health topics, compiled by the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.
Oregon Historical Quarterly Index
 Indexes to the Oregon Historical Quarterly, from the Oregon Historical Society.
The 1981-2000 index is available in .pdf format. Tables of contents and abstracts are available for more recent issues; click the "Back Issues" link.
(Print indexes, 1900-1980, are in Reference: F871 .O47.)
Oregon Index The Oregon Index is an online index to several Oregon newspapers and to magazine articles about Oregon, compiled by the Oregon State Library. (Article titles only.)

Commercial Article Indexes

Find Articles

This site from LookSmart indexes selected articles from about 900 magazines and journals. While it charges for many articles, it does provide free full-text access to many others, and includes a few important titles, such as Skeptical Inquirer, not available in the EBSCO indexes.
Ingenta A commercial site indexing thousands of publications and offering articles for purchase.

 Additional Indexes Available Through Multnomah County Public Library
Multnomah County Public Library subscribes to many article indexes, some of which can be accessed remotely by users with a Multnomah County Library card. The following are some specialized indexes that may be particularly useful for college students. To view MCL's entire list of indexes or log in, see their website at www.multcolib.org/ref/a2z.html.

   Available remotely (with MCL card):

  • Art Abstracts
  • Humanities Abstracts
  • Literature Resource Center
  • MLA Bibliography (Language & Literature)
  • Music Index
  • PsychInfo
  • WorldCat (combined library catalogs)

   Available on-site only:

  • America: History and Life
  • BIOSIS Previews (biology)
  • EI Compendex (Engineering/Computer Sc.)
  • Historical Abstracts
  • PAIS International (public affairs)

[Back to Top]

About Article Indexes

Indexes allow you to identify articles that have been published in newspapers, magazines, and professional journals on a given topic. They may be general, or focus on specific subjects. They provide:

  • citation (author, article title, source journal and date)
  • abstract (summary of the article)
  • (sometimes) the full text.

Obtaining Articles:
Check the COUGAR Cat catalog or our Periodicals List to see if CCC library owns the source journal. (If so, it will be shelved by title in the Periodicals section.)

Journals/issues we do not have:
We may be able to obtain the article for you through Interlibrary Loan.
In a hurry? Check the SUMMIT catalog to see if any nearby large academic libraries have it available for you to read.

[Back to Top]

 


Last revised: May 11, 2007