Research Guides: HNRS 300 US Immigration Past, Present, and Future: Library Databases

Not sure if a journal is peer-reviewed?

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory This link opens in a new window
Use this to determine if a journal is refereed & where it is indexed.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Covers today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with full-text periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. It features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
Social Science Index This link opens in a new window
indexes professional literature of the social sciences
SocINDEX with full text This link opens in a new window
Sociology, contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908.
Lexis-Nexis Universe (now Nexis Uni) This link opens in a new window
"Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790." Users will find full-text legal, business, medical, and news sources in Nexis Uni.
Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Full text access and image access to more thank 10,000 newspapers from the U.S. and worldwide. Access includes both historical and current day's news which includes the Roanoke Times, from 1990 to the current day.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
If Fintel Library subscribes to the database or journal where the article was published, Google Scholar will link you to the full-text content.

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