Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, and journals) are a great source for current information. They are published on a regular, recurring basis, allowing information to be reported quickly.
Most articles in these collections are written by professional journalists and/or subject experts, for publications that strive to protect their reputations for credibility.
Online research databases let you find articles from many thousands of publications. Some databases cover a wide range of topics, while others focus on specific fields like science, health, and education.
The Primo search tool finds articles from most of these databases. Or you can search these databases individually with more search options. See Which Way to Search (in the More About Periodicals box below) for why to do it one way or the other.
Extensive coverage of hundreds of today's hot topics, with analysis and related resources. Not searched by the Primo system.These collections allow you to read through issues of magazines on a tablet or computer.
Individual magazines from the library's OverDrive e-book service. Includes more than 4500 publications. Note that these magazines are not listed in the library catalog, and articles from these magazines are not searched by the Primo system.
We no longer receive new content from Flipster, but we still have access to issues that were published while our subscription was in effect. Select the magazine you want to view, then click the "All issues" link in the top right to see the available issues. Not searched by the Primo system.
There are free databases that have limited or no full-text content, but when accessed through EBSCOhost, are able to retrieve articles from our other databases.
Similarly, accessing Google Scholar through the library gives you access to otherwise-unavailable licensed content from our databases.
See the full list of our databases and e-resources: A-Z Databases
Search Scope Options:
Newspaper Articles: In Primo, newspaper articles are searched separately from other articles. In the Primo search screen, choose Newspapers at the top of the search screen, or choose Newspaper Search from the bottom of a results list.
The Primo system does not cover Issues & Controversies or OverDrive Magazines.
We subscribe to some periodicals in paper and online form, in addition to those in our databases and the OverDrive package. See the list of individual periodicals.
Print periodicals, and microfilm of some older periodical issues, are located on the upper level.
The Primo multi-database search system allows to you search in one place to get articles from most of our different research databases. You'll probably get slightly different results than if you search the individual databases directly, but you'll usually still find the information you need.
If you go to the individual databases, you might have search options that you don't have in Primo. For example, in an EBSCOhost database, you can choose to see only magazine articles, instead of long complicated journal articles. You can also choose to see only articles that are shorter or longer than a certain number of pages, or you can choose to see only cover stories.
Scholarly journals (also called academic journals) are used by researchers to report on their work. Some scholarly journals use the peer review process, in which independent subject experts carefully review submitted articles to determine which articles get published. Articles are usually quite long and detailed, are written at an expert level, and have a list of references (i.e., works cited) at the end.
Finding articles: The Primo search tool, EBSCOhost databases, and ProQuest's ABI/INFORM have filters that let you search for articles published in scholarly or peer-reviewed journals. All journals in ScienceDirect:are peer-reviewed. For more information and instructions, see the Scholarly and Peer-Reviewed Journals & Articles guide.
Full-Text means that the complete article – not just some information about the article – is available from a particular research database. The term can also refer to the articles themselves. The article is shown either in the form of a web page (i.e., HTML) or as a PDF file that resembles the printed article.
A periodical index database allows you to find information about periodical articles, but it does not include the actual articles. You'd have to find a library that subscribes to the periodical to read the actual article. They are often produced by government agencies or educational institutions as a public service. Examples include the Hawaiʻi Pacific Journal Index and the Hawaiʻi Newspaper Index.
