Research Tools

Periodical Articles

19th Century Masterfile
Contains full-text historical periodicals, books, newspapers and government documents from the 13th century through the 1930s.

Academic Search Premier
A multi-disciplinary database containing full text from nearly 3,200 scholarly publications. Coverage includes the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

America's Historical Newspapers
More than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published during the past four centuries, including titles from all 50 present states, 1690-1922.

American Lawyer
The American Lawyer is a legal magazine covering legal business, law firms, and lawyers across the U.S. and around the world.  For a facsimile version of the magazine, less the additional online content, click on this link http://bl-law-komodo.ads.iu.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.americanlawyer-digital.com/americanlawyer-ipauth/current.

Berkeley Electronic Press
Online academic journals in the fields of law, business, economics, political science, marketing, technology, and medicine.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Published every weekday, this newspaper provides news, information, and job opening information for college and university faculty members and administrators.

Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
A searchable database of America's historic newspapers, with coverage from 1836-1922.  Includes a U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Factiva
Provides access to business, national, and international news since 1985.

Google Scholar
This is a special version of Google's index to scholarly content on the web that connects to full-text resources available to IU users.  (Includes HeinOnline and JSTOR content.)  Requires sign-on for off-campus use.

HeinOnline
Provides full-text access to a large collection of legal periodicals and The Federal Register. 

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (H.W. Wilson)
Index to law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and some government publications, from August, 1981 to date.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
Historical index to law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and some government publications, from 1908 - 1981.

INSPIRE
Platform that launches 27 full text databases including: Academic Search, Masterfile, Business Source, Medline, ERIC, Health Source, Newspaper Source, Clinical Reference Systems, Middle Search, Primary Search, MAS FullTEXT Ultra, Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia, Ebsco Animals, Professional Development Collection, Clinical reference systems, and NetFirst. Indiana specific. (It is funded by the State of Indiana and is available from any library computer within the state of Indiana.)

JSTOR
Contains full text of many scholarly journals, largely in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science, and population studies.

Law360
A news database with coverage of nearly all major practice areas, including environmental, intellectual property, and all federal appellate cases.

LegalTrac
Index and abstract service for over 800 legal periodicals since 1980, some available in full-text.

Most-Cited Legal Periodicals
Hosted by Washington & Lee Law School, this webpage allows authors to find law journals by subject, country, or journal rank (where available), to display journal editorial information, and to facilitate an author's article submission to those journals.

National Law Journal
The National Law Journal is a daily legal newspaper that covers such items as court opinions and verdicts, information about practitioners, law firms, and law schools, as well as law-related legislative news.

NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository
The NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository contains working papers, reports, lecture series papers, and workshop presentations from 14 NELLCO Law Schools (Boston College, Columbia, Connecticut, Cornell, Duke, Fordham, Georgetown, New York University, Pennsylvania, Pierce, Roger Williams, Suffolk, Vermont, and Yale).

Newspaper ARCHIVE
The Newspaper ARCHIVE contains hundred of years of local historical newspaper content and every part of each page is searchable, including advertisements.  Use this link to access the Maurer School of Law Library's subscription to the following states' newspaper archives: Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

PAIS International
Indexes public policy and social science material within journal articles, books, government documents, pamphlets and the reports of public and private bodies since 1972. Indexes publications in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

ProQuest
Index and abstract service with some full text, for criminal justice publications as well as business and general news publications.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers (Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post)
Contains the full text of the New York Times (1851-2008), the Chicago Tribune (1849-1988), the Los Angeles Times (1881-1988), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1994),‎ and the Washington Post (1877-1995).

Social Sciences Citation Index
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 scholarly social science journals covering more than 50 disciplines since 1987.

Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson):
Provides full text access to English-language journals published in the social sciences. Also provides indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back to 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.    

Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 (H.W.Wilson)
Offers the ability to search for indexing information for a wide range of journals in the social sciences dating as far back as 1907.  Indexes approximately 1,000,000 articles, including book reviews.  

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Pre-print service and institutional archives of academic journal articles.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Provides information on serials published throughout the world.