Accessing these databases from home? Click on this NACS page link and learn how to configure your computer so that you may access all this valuable information through our proxy server or the Virtual Private Network (VPN).

In a library catalog, you can discover whether UCI (or any UC library) owns a book, video, or newspaper on your topic.

Antpac and the Antpac Tutorial
Locate books, journals, government documents, electronic resources, microform, video & more at UC Irvine.

Melvyl
Locate books, journals, government documents, electronic resources, microform, video & more throughout the UC system. Note: If UCI does not own the item, use the "Request" button to retrieve it from Interlibrary Loan. If the item is available, it usually arrives within 3-7 working days after the request.

Worldcat
This database includes holdings for libraries across the nation. A good place to begin searching for the existence of an item (e.g. book or journal). Many items found here can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan (http://www.lib.uci.edu/services/ill/ill.html).

Search Strategy -- Keyword to Subject. When doing your research, start with a keyword search. When you find a book or another item that is ideally suited for your topic, look at the subject headings in the record. Then, perform another search under that subject heading. Below is a list of subject headings I have discovered that relate to Literary Journalism as a field:

Below are links to online newspapers and a newspaper index. Except for the Historical Newspapers, most online newspapers only go back to 1980 at the very earliest. We also own newspapers on microfilm, many going back to the 1800s. These microfilms are located in the Current Periodicals Room, which is on the second floor of the Langson Library. To see if UCI owns a particular newspaper, do a "Title/Journal Title" search in Antpac.

Local Southern California news publications
Go here to search local papers such as the Irvine World News, LA & OC Weekly, LA Times and OC Register, and many more.

Newspaper Aggregators
The following newspaper collections are text only articles that provide primary sources for your research. The date range for these newspapers vary, with the oldest dates going back to 1980

America's Newspapers (NewsBank)
Links to 269 newspapers across the United States. Go here for many local California newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times and the OC Register.
Confused about connectors? Click on the following help guide for connectors in America's Newspapers.

Lexis-Nexis
Full-text regional, national and international newspapers - including the Washington Post and the New York Times, as well as legal newspapers such as the National Law Journal. In Lexis-Nexis, start with a "Guided News Search" to search different newpapers across the United States.
Confused about connectors? Click on the following help guide for connectors in Lexis-Nexis.

Ethnic Newswatch
A full-text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
To search: enter the title of the book in the first search box and select "citation and article text". In the second box, enter "review" and select "article type" in the dropdown menu. Then search.
Coverage: 1991-present

Historical Newspapers
Below are links to the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. The links below are scanned in newspaper articles as if you were reading them from microfilm. A great resource if you need pictures or if you need articles before 1980.

The Historical portions of these three newspapers can be searched simultaneously. To do so, visit any one of the Historical Newspaper links above. Once there, click on "Select Multiple Databases" and then choose the historical portions of the LA Times, NY Times, and Wall Street Journal.

Early American Newspapers
Early American Newspapers features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images.
Coverage: 1690-1820

Below are links to the most common article indexes you'll be using for your paper. Click on the following for a complete listing of article databases. Be sure to also visit the library tutorial on Finding Articles in Databases.

AltPressIndex and Left Index (recently added)
AltPressIndex (1991-present): index to alternative sources of information.
Left Index: (1982-present): An index to literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.

America: History and Life
The most authoritative listing of periodical literature, book and media reviews, and dissertations in United States and Canadian history.

American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900
Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Published between 1741 and 1900, the more than 1,000 titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several popular magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal.

Business Source Premier
Articles from 3,650 scholarly journals. Coverage includes accounting, economics, finance, international business, management, and marketing.

ERIC -- Education Resources Information Center
Extensive access to journal articles and non-journal literature (e.g., reports, curriculum guides, conference papers) for all areas and levels of education.

Essay and General Literature Index (1985-present -- recently added)
This index cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada

Expanded Academic ASAP
Expanded Academic contains records for articles from popular magazines, general interest journals, and scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences, published since 1980.

Historical Abstracts
The "world's leading historical bibliography" covers the history of the world from 1450 - present (excluding North America; AHL above).

19th Masterfile
19th Century Masterfile is the largest resource for pre-1920's studies, with over 6 million citations online. Includes Poole's, William Frederick Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, which indexes books, newspapers, periodicals and government documents on the 19th Century. It is a continually expanding resource for the study of Nineteenth-Century cultural and intellectual life.

Periodicals Content Index Full-Text
Indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from 1770 - 1995. PCI also has better international coverage than the above papers. Currently has over 200 complete journal runs for this time period.

PsycINFO
Access to international literature in psychology, cognitive science, and related disciplines.

Reader's Guide Retrospective
Covers the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 - 1982.

Sociological Abstracts
Over 2,600 journals, books, conference papers, and dissertations in the sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences are indexed.

Legal Research
Below are two databases that will fulfill most of your legal research questions. To see more information resources for legal research, visit the Criminology, Law & Society subject guide.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Legal newsletters & newspapers, full-text law review articles. Once here, click on "Legal Research" on the left side of the page.

Westlaw Campus
A collection of primary and secondary legal research materials that includes federal and state case law, court rules, statutory and regulatory materials, reference publications, and full text legal periodicals. *** To access the index for state law, click on "State Constitutions" on the left and then select your state.

Hein Online: the Modern Link to Legal History (recently added)
Over 650 Law Journals online, full-text. Also contains a "Legal Classics" library. Holdings are historical, usually going back to the first issue of a journal to about 1980. Holdings here compliment those you find on Westlaw Campus.

Public Records
Below are links and library resorces on obtaining public records. Emphasis is on California with some information for other states and areas of government.

Free Public Record Site
The publishing site BRB provides a core group of links to government searchable sites along with some important non-government sites.

People Finder Guide
This guide will help you find online sources of public records as well as other Web-based people finding tools. When searching public records such as court filings, property records or the records of a government agency, understand that you will often find details in the supporting paper documentation, which is not available online.
Contains links to public records, reverse telephone directories, e-mail address finders, etc.

Statistics
Below are links to answering many statistics questions. To see more information for finding statistics, visit the Statistics subject guide.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Langson Reference Desk HA 202 U5
Going back to 1900 online and 1878 in print, a good place to start looking for statistics.

Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe
Access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities.

American Factfinder
Good place to try and find national statistics, including statistics from the Census.

Counting California
This database provides access to the growing range of social science and economic data produced by government agencies in California.

U.S. Census Bureau
Access the 2000 census and other statistics here.

County and City Data Book
Langson Reference Desk C 3.134/2:C 83/2/ (2000)
Previous Years: Langson Government Information, U.S. C 3.134/2:C 83/2/
Provides statistics for the counties, cities with 25,000 or more inhabitants, and places with 2,500 or more inhabitants.

Associations Unlimited
The most comprehensive listing of associations is here. Based on the Encyclopedia of Associations, this database provides contact information and brief descriptions for associations and professional societies. Covers both private and non-profit organizations.

Power Reporting
A site with links to helpful research links for journalists.

Online Reference Resources
Found on the UCI Libraries home page, this site contains links to reference resources that will be beneficial to visit during the beginning stages of your research. Two sections of this page that may be beneficial are the ones for Biography and Encyclopedias.

AccuNet/AP Photo Archive (Associated Press images)
Search and download images from the AP photo archive. Images you may find include crime scenes and photos of those involved in the crime.
Search Tip: Use single quote marks around names or any sting of words to be searched together (e.g. 'Lizzie Borden').

Google and Evaluating Web Pages
Google is one of the premier search engines of Internet pages. But Google also contains a lot of unreliable information. Before you use any information in Google, please be sure to evaluate the content and the authority of that Web site. The above "Evaluating Web Pages" developed by a librarian at UC Berkeley will help you do so.

Scholar Google: Search some scholarly papers via Google.
Google - Unclesam: Good place to start a search on government pages.