Why Use Library Databases
Recommended Databases
| 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 | Nexis Uni | 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. |
Finding Databases
The U-M Library subscribes to hundreds of databases which gives you access to thousands of journals and articles. The following video explains how you can find the appropriate database for your research needs
In addition to finding datases, the Journal search allows you to search for journals available at U-M. 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 U-M doesn’t own the journal you are looking for, we can obtain copies of articles for you via interlibrary loan.
Finding & Accessing Articles Using Library Search
The U-M Library Articles Search is a gateway to discovering a wide range of library resources. Please watch the video below on how to effectively and efficiently use Library Search.