Besides JSTOR, what other databases are out there for finding academic articles?

Project Muse is another one I use quite often, but I’m a Literature major and can find pretty much whatever I need between those two databases. Is there a particular subject you have in mind? I can scan through my university’s website and see what other links they have provided.

@muppetish History, gender studies, art, archeology, religion/religious studies, medicine

Art: JStory, Philosopher’s Index, Project Muse, ARTstor, Oxford Art Online, Art Full Text (Wilson), and Art Retrospective (Wilson)

Gender Studies (closest match was women’s studies, which isn’t quite the same in my book): GenderWatch, Academic Search Elite, Social Sciences Full Text, JSTOR, PsycINFO, Ethnic NewsWatch.

History: America: History and Life (EBSCO, Historical Abstracts, JSTOR, Project Muse, Academic Search Elite, Cambridge Histories Online, Humanities E-Book (ACLS), Los Angeles Times Historical (1881–1985), New York Times Historical (1852–2007), Oxford Journals.

There were no sub-categories available for Archeology, Medicine, or Religion / Religious Studies, which is a bit strange coming from our library.

I go straight to Web of science, which is a sub-branch of web of knowledge.

http://wokinfo.com/about/whatitis/

23,000 academic and science journals and counting. It also has lots of useful features such as endnote links, graphical output for search results (ie to show trends in a particular issue’s publication rate), advanced search options, and journal citation rates.

Nice summary here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISI_Web_of_Knowledge

If Im after a particular species (Im an ecologist), I may often supplement such searches with google scholar, to find within text info that may not be included in the abstract, title or keywords.

Deepdyve,
DOAG,
Springerlink,
Infotrieve,
Proquest.

You can check libraries/university library search engines. We have one that simultaneously searches all the main article sources. Or, if you are looking for a specific article message it to me and I can snipe it from my university database for you :-).

ERIC

Google Scholar?

Our library’s top ten databases for finding academic articles are:

Academic Search Premier
Lexis/Nexis Academic
JStor (yes I know you said beside JStor, but I am just going with the top ten.)
CQ Researcher
Business Source Premier
World Cat
ERIC
MLA International Bibliography
PsycINFO
Wilson Omni Text

Your academic library should have several general and subject specific databases that you can access. Not all of them are exclusively scholarly but most will have a dialogue box for limitng your search results to scholarly or peer-reviewed journals.

EBSCOhost

@janbb I can find the specific ones, but most of the general ones have really poor descriptions, so I don’t know what they are.

@MyNewtBoobs AcademicSearchPremier and ASAP are the best general ones I know and both will let you limit to scholarly or peer-reviewed articles.

When I was in college JSTOR, Lexis/Nexis and EBSCOhost were the main ones people searched. If your campus library has subscriptions to other journal/article sites like that they’ll all be listed in the databases. There are a TON of field-specific ones out there as well. When I wrote papers, GoogleScholar helped a bit too.

@Allie Isn’t Lexis/Nexis just for legal documents?

@MyNewtBoobs I think so. I never used it, but the top three research databases for our campus were the ones I listed. (We do have a law school though, so that’s probably why.) I used EBSCO the most I think. That and old-fashioned library book research.

Lexis/Nexis is a compendium of databases that has other components besides the most widely known legal. The New York Times and other newspapers are available through Lexis/Niexis, for example..

ebrary Academic Complete, alongside what has already been mentioned