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Academic OneFile: Academic OneFile provides millions of articles from peer reviewed journals. Provided by New York State's NOVEL program. Available to Thrall / RCLS library cardholders / NYS residents.Click here to search by publication title.
General OneFile: General OneFile provides millions of article from consumer magazines and general interest periodicals. Provided by New York State's NOVEL program. Available to Thrall / RCLS library cardholders / NYS residents. Click here to search by publication title.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context: Browse or search for full text articles on current issues and events. Learn more about different positions, controversies, arguments, disagreements, and similar opinions shared by scholars, experts, policy makers, and others. Articles come from magazines, academic journals, newspapers, primary source documents, government documents, and other sources. Provided by New York State's NOVEL program. Available to Thrall / RCLS cardholders / NYS residents.

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Google Scholar: "Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites."
Issuu: Select online/electronic editions of special interest magazines, catalogs, and other periodical publications. Browse by category or search.
JSTOR Early Journal Content: "Content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere includes discourse and scholarship in the arts, humanities, economics, politics, mathematics and sciences. Nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals."
MagPortal.com: Click here for the list of publications indexed by MagPortal.com
PubMed Central: "A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)."
Research Databases Title Lists: For members of Middletown Thrall Library and RCLS libraries. Locate journals / newspapers / periodicals / publications indexed in our major research article databases.
Royal Society Journal Archive: "The Royal Society continues to support scientific discovery by allowing free access to more than 250 years of leading research."
ScienceDirect: "Journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and 26,000 books." Includes article abstracts and freely viewable open access content: "Articles published in our Open Access journals are made permanently free for everyone to access immediately upon publication." Tip: after searching, switch the All Access Types drop-down menu option (right side of results) to either Open Access or Open Archive.
Semantic Scholar: "Semantic Scholar leverages our AI expertise to help researchers find the most relevant information efficiently. We utilize methods from data mining, natural-language processing, and computer vision to create powerful new search and discovery experiences. Starting with Computer Science in 2015, we plan to scale the service to additional scientific areas over the next few years in support of AI2's mission of'"AI for the Common Good.'"
Virtual NewsStand: "Magazines, newspapers, journals, newsletters, and other periodicals available at Middletown Thrall Library, on the Web, or in our databases."

Open Access Journals with Full Text Articles

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): "This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages."
Genamics JournalSeek: "Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the Internet." Categories include: Arts and Literature, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Biological Sciences, Business Administration, Chemistry, Computer and Information Science, Earth Sciences, Economics, Education, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Law, Linguistics, Management Science/Operations Research, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Social Sciences, Space Science, Sports and Recreation." "JournalSeek does not contain articles or abstracts, and Genamics does not operate as a subscription agent."
JSTOR: Open Content: "Explore academic content on JSTOR that is open to everyone, everywhere. Search thousands of free journal articles and open access book chapters." Note: Use either the "search open content" search box or scroll down for their lists of Open Access Journals and Books.
JURN: "Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses." Posited not simply as a "custom Google search," JURN combines Google with "a hand-crafted index that has been highly curated over a period of six years. JURN provides comprehensive coverage of ejournals in the arts and humanities, the natural world and ecology." See also their About page to learn more how this search differs from others, such as DOAJ and Google Scholar.
Oxford Open Journals: Scientific, historical, medical, and technological journals. Click on "Advanced Search" in the top right menu bar. From Oxford University Press.
Public Library of Science: "The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization founded to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. PLOS publishes a suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine: PLOS ONE, PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Pathogens and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases."
ROAD: "ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO...provides a free access to ... bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access [such as] journals, conference proceedings and academic repositories." Resouces must have "open access to the whole content of the resource (free registration is accepted)."
Wiley Open Access: "Wiley Open Access is a program of fully open access journals. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. The fully open access journals are published in collaboration with authoritative journals and societies as well as supported by internationally renowned editorial board members." Journals can be browsed or searched.