The library has around 1,000 article databases that provide access to millions of articles. To find the best resources for your research, you will often need to look in more than one database. Watch the videos on this page to learn how to use U-M Library Search to find articles and why you should use library databases.
The current on-duty librarian for the library-wide Ask a Librarian IM service is available when you see a green dot at the top of the box.
See http://www.lib.umich.edu/ask for additional contact methods.
| Subject Area | Database Name | Description |
| General/Multidisciplinary | Library Articles Search | Gateway to discovering a wide range of the library's resources. Results include scholarly journal articles, newspaper articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, and more from all disciplines. |
| General/Multidisciplinary | ProQuest Research Library | Indexes over 5,000 journals and magazines, academic and popular, with full text included for over 3,600. |
| General/Multidisciplinary | JSTOR | Provides full-text access to core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. |
| News & Current Events | ProQuest News & Current Events | Full text newspapers from all over the world. This database searches major newspapers like the New York Times and the Detroit Free Press. |
| News & Current Events | LexisNexis Academic | Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines. |
| Business | ABI/INFORM Global | Indexes 3,000+ business-related periodicals (with full text for 2,000+), including Wall Street Journal. |
| Education | ERIC [ProQuest] | Database from the U.S. Dept. of Education providing extensive access to educational-related literature. |
| Psychology | PsycINFO | This database contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. |
| Sciences/Social Sciences | Web of Science | Searches multiple databases related to the sciences and social sciences. |
| Humanities/Social Sciences | Project MUSE | Full-text access to scholarly journals and e-books published by more than 120 scholarly societies and university presses. This is a great database for research in the humanities and social sciences. |
The Journal search allows you to search for journals available at UM. If you know the title of the journal you can enter it into the search box. If you are not looking for a specific journal you can browse by discipline. If UM doesn’t own the journal you are looking for, we can obtain copies of articles for you via interlibrary loan.
