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Finding Research Papers, Magazine Articles, & Newspaper Articles

For help in finding research papers and articles written for a more popular audience, we recommend using indexing tools. Some indexes only index; some index and include full-text. Always, though, you should see the citation for the article or paper. This helps find the text for the article in the UT subscriptions. These databases are some of our favorites.

Papers from conferences will be included in some of the indexes --- usually the ones with a special subject focus.

You will get totally worn out if you use all of them, so it is better to focus your efforts. Academic Search Complete is a good place to start. Each of the others has a special job or feature.

Academic Search Complete
Interdisciplinary coverage of topics including engineering, business, public policy, and energy. With lots of full text. Does not index conference literature.
Business Source Complete
Indexes the research and popular literature of business. With lots of full text.
Compendex
The most comprehensive index to the research literature of engineering. It may be searched together with "GeoRef" as one database.
GeoRef
The main index to the research literature of the geosciences. It may be searched together with "Compendex" as one database.
OnePetro
A full-text database of papers from the Society of Petroleum Engineers and some other groups with similar interests. For wider coverage, be sure to use indexing products that include papers from more publishers.
The following organizations are among those with their conference papers and technical documents indexed through OnePetro:
- American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)
- American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
- Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
- NACE International (corrosion engineers)
- Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) **includes full-text
- Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)
- The Society of Underwater Technology (SUT)
- World Petroleum Council (WPC)
Web of Science
Indexes literature across the sciences. Well known for its cited-by features.
Factiva
A news and newspaper source, including full text for most entries.
Nexis Uni
News, newspaper, and court information. Mostly full text.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Unlimited users.
Updated daily. Provides full text access to differing points of view on current social issues. Brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.
CQ Researcher
Unlimited users.
Updated weekly. Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Every report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue with numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles.
TRID: The TRIS and ITRD Database
Indexes the literature of transportation.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
One of several versions of "Medline," also known in the freely-available version as "PubMed." Indexes the research literature of medicine, with some additional material.

Also, the Libraries offer many other databases which index articles. There's a big list. Included in these databases are full-text products from society publishers such as the SPE, IEEE, ASME, ASCE, and others. As with OnePetro, these products are satisfying to use but should not be considered comprehensive indexes of the literature.

"Find it at UT"

Be sure and use this helpful tool!

When you see Find it at UT, usually you will want to click on it. The hope is to find the text of a journal article or information about electronic holdings of a journal.

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