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Covers: Current. Provides a directory and catalog of currently-published serials worldwide, including consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, and electronic publications. Each entry specifies prices, formats (print or online), providers, and whehter or not the publication is peer-reviewed. Search or browse by title, ISSN, subject area, or content type.

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Covers: 1966-. Complete database on educational materials from the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). ERIC indexes two different kinds of publication: journal articles and ERIC Documents or reports.
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Covers: 1930s-. Designed for professional educators, this database provides full text from education journals as well as educational reports.
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Covers 1887-. Provides access to the international literature in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences, including psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, pharmacology, and linguistics. Indexes journals, as well as books, technical reports, dissertations, and other materials.
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Indexes hundreds of open access and subscription journals, books from the WorldCat database, conference papers and proceedings, white papers, and other academic materials posted on the Web. Google Scholar is not as comprehensive as many subject databases, but it is useful in that it provides one handy place to search across many different disciplines and subject areas.
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Reading Scholarly Articles - USC Libraries
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