Multidisciplinary Databases
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EBSCO MegaFILEMultidisciplinary index to both scholarly journals and popular magazines. Strongest coverage is of the last twenty years.
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Google ScholarUses Google search engine to search scholarly articles and books. Use the PennText button on the right to connect to Penn resources.
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ScopusProvides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in biology ,physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences.
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Web of ScienceProvides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work.
Subject-Specific Databases
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PsycINFOAmerican Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields.
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PubMed Plus, with Full-textThe public version of Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature. This enhanced version has links to those full-text journals to which the Penn Library subscribes.
Background Resources
These resources provide contextual information.
Reading a Citation
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Article citations have a journal/periodical title in addition to the article title. They will usually also show a volume and issue number.
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Book citations generally show a publisher and a city of publication. Book chapters will include the title of the chapter as well as the name of the book.
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Finding Articles
If you have a complete article citation, or even just a journal title, you can use the PennText article finder on the Library homepage.
To find the full-text of an article, enter the journal name into the PennText article finder. A pop-up box will give you options to access the article online, in print, or the option to request through interlibrary loan.
Finding Books
If your citation is a book, use Franklin, the Library catalog. Franklin will help you find the library in which the book is located, and the call number.
You can search for a specific book by title, author, or ISBN. You can also do a keyword or subject keyword search to find books on a particular topic.
Resources for locating books:
Book not at Penn? Request it from another library using BorrowDirect or EZ-Borrow!
