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Journal Locator Lists alphabetically journals, magazines or newspapers available full-text in electronic format available from Amherst.
JSTOR provides fulltext backfiles of more than 100 titles in a variety of subject areas. Titles and years held can be searched in the Five College Catalog by title, or browsed by subject area on the JSTOR Journal Browse List or by title on JSTOR's alphabetical title list.
The Online Books Page Links to over 20,000 fulltext books, including through Project Gutenberg.
Project MUSE is a collection of current online journals in a variety of disciplines. For holdings select Project MUSE journals by title, or the Five College Catalog.
Expanded Academic ASAP is partially fulltext. Database covers information on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences. Indexing and articles from 1980–present.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Fulltext databases containing hundreds of journals and newspapers in law, business, and current events. Select Sources from the upper left hand corner of the main page for a searchable list.
American Periodicals Series online, 1740-1900
Digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 eighteenth and nineteenth century
newspapers and periodicals from American periodical series, I, II, and
III. When completed in 2003, this database will have more than 7,000,000
pages of fulltext periodicals.
ebrary
12,000+ fulltext academic books from over 170 publishers. Searchable,
comes with a downloadable free reader.
netLibrary An online library consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly and professional works. Full text searching is available. Books can be downloaded for a limited time period, or printed out one page at a time.
DOAJ:
Directory of Open Access Journals
Hundreds of free, full text scientific and scholarly journals.
NewJour An excellent list of electronic journals and newsletters available over the Internet. Complete texts of every publication may not be accessible from the Amherst campus.
jake Search for journal titles to see which databases index a journal. Amherst does not have subscriptions for all the databases included.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Databases containing full-text national and international newspapers. Select Sources from the upper left hand corner of the main page for a searchable list.
New York Times backfile (1851 to 3 years from current date)
Wall Street Journal (1982-present)
The Washington Post (from 1877 to 1988, with one year's content added every year)
World News Connection Online Full-text database of non-U.S. political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. The content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.
Ethnic NewsWatch contains fulltext of numerous ethnic newspapers. To see which titles are included, click on Publication Name from the main search screen.
Alt Press Watch Fulltext database of about 90 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press, from 1995 to present.
AllAfrica.com
Content from newspapers, news agencies and publications (over 100 media
organizations) from the African continent. Government and opposition-controlled
papers are included,as well as the growing number of independent, professional
news publications across the continent. AllAfrica also publishes original
reporting by their own editorial team.
Latinnews Daily Service Daily news from Latin America translated and with analysis.
ScienceDirect Collection of more than 500 electronic journals in all science disciplines and some social sciences. Full text coverage goes back to 1995 for most titles.
BioOne Collection of full text life sciences journals covering botany, ecology, and zoology. Coverage begins primarily in 2000.
ACS Publications:Journals & Magazines Recent issues of all journals published by the American Chemical Society online.
Institute of Physics (IOP) Journal Archive Full text archive of 57 IOP journals. Coverage includes 1874 to 1992 for all titles (with additional year being added every year) and from 1874 up to current issues for journals to which AC already subscribes.
ACLS History E-Book Project Scholarly books, searchable fulltext.
Hein Online Fulltext database of over 200 law reviews going back to the first volume of each title. Searchable by keyword, author, citation, etc.
GenderWatch (some back to 1970's–present) GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Early American Imprints Full-image of books, pamphlets and other works published in the Colonies and the U.S., 1639 to 1800.
EEBO Online Database under construction. It will contain the full-text of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Eventually will include all House and Senate documents, journals, and reports from the 19th century.
AncestryLibrary Digital images of the census records for individual people from the U.S. Federal Census between the years 1790 and 1920 and Gale's Passenger & Immigration Lists Index. Other primary source documents as well.
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection Contains over 2,200 downloadable essays, taken from 237 Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics; and Philosophy, Religion and Culture.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES
Amherst College Library listing of online encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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