Primary Research

Gale Academic OneFile
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects - authoritative and comprehensive.
Communication Cache
A scholarly resource containing articles available via open resources such as Google, Google Scholar, Yahoo Search, Microsoft Academic, Bing, unrestricted electronic libraries and original author web site postings.
ERIC Institute of Education Sciences
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. Also available is Search ERIC which holds more than 100,000 full-text documents that are freely available.
Gale Academic OneFile Select
Access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology.
Free Medical Journals
Provides access to many research journals including JAMA, NEJM, Journal of Neuroscience, Cell, BMJ and many others. Some require a sign-in; many do not.
Find Articles
A vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
Google Scholar
Contains scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Ingenta Connect
13,435,640 articles from 27,299 publications (5,400+ of which are full-text). Great for the upper-level researcher, Ingenta provides access to current research (mostly abstracts and citations) from numerous fields and disciplines.
Jefferson Digital Commons
A service of Thomas Jefferson University's Academic & Instructional Support & Resources Department (AISR). The Commons is a showcase for Jefferson books and journals, peer-reviewed scholarly publications, unique historical collections from the University archives, and teaching tools. The Jefferson Digital Commons allows researchers and interested readers anywhere in the world to learn about and keep up to date with Jefferson scholarship.
JSTOR

Includes scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

Gale OneFile Psychology
Gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time. Researchers will have access to hundreds of subject-appropriate full-text periodicals - many cited in the PsycINFO index.
National Center for Biotechnical Information
A digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Science AAAS
Online access to Science, one the world's leading journals of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Access rights include: Science - 1997-current issue, except Science Express PDF articles (Note: research papers in Science Express become available under this subscription after publication in the print version of the journal.) Science Classic: 1880-1996 (full-text of the journal back to 1880), ScienceNOW (news), and all free content on the site (Science Signaling, SAGE KE Table of Contents of current issues and back issues, Science Technical Comments, and ScienceCareers.org including Next Wave and GrantsNet).
Science Direct
Over 1,800 journals from Elsevier including top titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron. Over 6.5 million articles and over 60 million abstracts from all fields of science (free access to parts of the database).
SpringerLink
Access to abstracts from journals, book series, books, reference works and an Online Archives Collection (free access to parts of the database). Choose "Browse by Discipline" and follow the link to your choice. Then uncheck the box "Include preview-only content" to view all open access resources.
A free, open resource for students, educators and others who are researching U.S. Black history. The site features over 2,000 curated primary-source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Our intention is to support a wide range of students, independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.