Research Guides: INFO7000: Resources for Graduate Students/Information Science/Fiesler/Fall2022: Find Databases

Recommended Databases to Find Articles

Find Academic Articles
Find News Articles

You will search for academic articles in databases. It is ok to use Google Scholar. Most databases require you to develop search terms or "keywords" that summarize the main points of your topic. See the next tab on how to search a database.

Engineering Village
Comprehensive database of scholarly literature in engineering and other applied sciences.
Web of Science, Web of Science database
Interdisciplinary index that provides citations for high impact journals. Useful for forward citation searching. Includes some indexing and full-text linking for ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
Please contact the Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship for assistance setting up the Web of Science API.
ACM Digital Library
Publications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (EBSCO)
Database covering a wide variety of computing and applied science research.
IEEE Electronic Library
Technical literature from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), and the Institution of Engineering and Technology Proceedings.
Google Scholar
Tool to search for scholarly documents across the web, with an added feature of CU Full Text links.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Multidisciplinary index to thousands of popular and scholarly journals, including engineering trade journals, from 1975 to current.
Knovel Library
Scientific and technical reference ebooks from professional societies and various publishers.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publications about new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching.
IEEE E-Books Library
Collection of over 400 ebooks from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Access World News Research Collection
Online access to major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles. Also includes newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more.
Alternative Press Index (EBSCO)
Database of journal, newspaper and magazine articlesfrom hundreds of international alternative, radical and left periodicals. Covers 1991-present. For 1969-1990, see Alternative Press Index Archive.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Periodicals of ethnic and minority presses. Articles written primarily by Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian & Pacific Islander, and Jewish people.

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