LibGuides: IB Student Research Guide: Search Tools

Open Web Search Tools

WorldCat
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. Search the collections of 17,900 libraries in 123 countries and territories.
Google Scholar
Search for scholarly literature.

Arkansas Traveler Databases

Arkansas Traveler Databases
The complete list of library search tools and research databases arranged by subject areas.
ProQuest Central
A cross-disciplinary research tool with 39 databases that can be searched together or individually.
ProQuest eLibrary
A massive, multidisciplinary database, designed for students and educators at high schools, community colleges, and four-year universities. Editorially created pages provide valuable context for both common and obscure research topics. The content, which is all full text, includes books, magazines, journals, newspapers, photographs, transcripts, and videos.
ProQuest Ebook Central
Full-text authoritative ebooks from the world’s top publishers
ProQuest SIRS Issues Researcher
Offers analysis and opinions covering the pros, cons, and everything in between for 325 social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Editorially created Topic Overview pages with engaging Essential Questions with answers, and viewpoint articles help build solid foundations for understanding the issues. Articles and graphics in SIRS Issues Researcher are carefully selected according to strict SIRS criteria for content reliability, relevance, and age-appropriateness.
ERIC
This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

NWACC Library Resources

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
The definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. Users get fast and easy access to top nursing and allied health journals, evidence-based care sheets and quick lessons. CINAHL Complete provides broad content coverage including over 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I & V This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the highest-quality academic journals, books, and primary sources in art and art history, classical studies, history, language and literature, music, philosophy, and political science. Collections on JSTOR include the complete archival record of each journal. Coverage begins at the first volume and issue of the journal ever published, and extends up to a publication date usually set in the past three to five years.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Delve into the science of psychology and behavior with PsycARTICLES, the database of full text peer-reviewed articles published by APA and affiliated journals. Updated weekly, PsycARTICLES connects you to current articles written by esteemed researchers from across psychology and the behavioral and social sciences.
Sage Knowledge eBooks This link opens in a new window
A cross-media platform including monographs, professional development texts, classroom texts, and reference works from across the spectrum of social sciences.
SocINDEX With Full Text This link opens in a new window
This database is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. In addition to nearly 900 full-text journals, SocINDEX With Full Text also contains informative abstracts for more than 1,500 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. The database also provides data mined from nearly 420 "priority" coverage journals and over 2,900 "selective" coverage journals.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Search a broad, multidisciplinary, full-text database of journals and books published by John Wiley & Sons with access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, over 15,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works and laboratory protocols.