Periodical Databases

How do I find magazine, journal and newspaper articles?

• Click LINCCWeb Online Databases to locate periodical databases which are indexes to the contents of journals and other material.
• These restricted databases use the number on your Library Card which functions as the Borrower Identification Number for current Seminole State students, faculty and staff and your PIN. What are my ID & PIN?

How do I know which databases to use?

Suggested Periodical Databases By Subject or Title:

• Full-text
• General Research
• News/Newspapers
• SUS (State University System Databases)

Tell Me More

• What is SFX?
• What are Periodicals? (Ithaca College Library)
• How do I search the Seminole State Library LINCC Online Catalog for a specific magazine or journal?
• How do I know if a journal is scholarly/refereed?
• How do you interpret print index citations?

General Research:

• Academic Search Premier (Some Full-text)
• CQ Researcher
• FirstSearch (61 databases Some full-text) For general searching, choose Topic Area: Full Text
  You can submit an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request for periodical articles located in the FirstSearch database while you're working in the database.
• LINCCWeb
• FindArticles.com

News/Newspapers

• ABYZ News Links
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Christian Science Monitor: Full-text 01/01/95 to present
  • The New York Times: Abstracts Only 01/01/89 to present
  • The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition): Abstracts Only 07/01/93 to present
• FirstSearch (OCLC) Choose "News and Current Events."
  • Alternative Press Index (AltPressIndex) Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines
  • DataTimes Newspaper Abstract and Index
  • Newspaper Abstracts (NewsAbs)
  • SIRSResearcher selected full text newspapers
• New York Times (via Custom Newspapers) Full Text 2000+
• New York Times (via Newspaper Abstracts, NewsAbs, in FirstSearch) 1986+ Abstracts only
• New York Times Knowledge Network
• NewsLink
• NewspaperLinks
• Newspapers (refdesk.com)
• Orlando Sentinel
  • The last seven days of stories are available at no charge.
  • The Orlando Sentinel archives allow free access to view abstracts. Full articles can be purchased for $2.25 each. Only the text of an article is available via the archive. Photographs and other graphics that may have accompanied an article are NOT available in the archive.
• Orlando Weekly
• Regional Business News (EBSCO)- Full-text newswire incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers & newswires covering all metropolitan & rural areas within the United States
• Sanford Herald 
• VOANews
• World-Newspapers.com
• World Press Review - World News from World Newspapers

State University System Databases

SUS Databases are available to students only through the Seminole State Library facility.  Please inquire at the Reference desk for details

• Anthropology Plus (RLG's Eureka)
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (RLG's Eureka)
• Bibliography of History of Art (RLG's Eureka)
• Chicano Database (RLG's Eureka)
• Current Contents [last 12 months] (WebLUIS/ISI)
• English Short Title Catalogue (RLG's Eureka)
• Foreign Legal Periodicals (RLG's Eureka)
• FRANCIS (RLG's Eureka)
• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (RLG's Eureka)
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (RLG's Eureka)
• Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals (RLG's Eureka)

Did you know?

Seminole State's Library has one of the most extensive collections of literature and educational materials in Seminole County.