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Searches multiple databases (covering most subjects) for sources including scholarly journals, dissertations, magazines, newspapers, eBooks, and more.
Multidisciplinary database (covering most subjects) including scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and other sources.
Journals in multiple arts (art, music, theatre, dance) and humanities (history, literature, philosophy, cultural studies) disciplines.
Project MUSE offers complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. MUSE provides access to a growing list of scholarly open access content.
CSM does not have a subscription to JSTOR, a database that includes more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Use this database to search for materials to request via Interlibrary Loan (ILL), use "free reads" with a personal account, and find additional open access content.
CSM's E-Journal Finder is a great tool for finding specific journals OR for browsing by subject.
Under each journal, use the entries for a direct link to the journal in that database. The date range is especially useful if you are looking for a specific article (where you know the publication date) or need articles that were published in a certain time frame ("last 5 years", "before 1975", etc.).
Multidisciplinary index of over 17,000 peer-reviewed open access journals, covering subjects in humanities, social sciences, STEM, and medicine. (FREE)
Hitting a paywall? Don't buy articles!
If you find an article online but can’t access the full text, you can check to the E-Journal Finder to see if it is available through the library databases, search in Google Scholar, or request a copy of the article through Interlibrary Loan.