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Twitter links were recently added to the list of social bookmarking links available on the SAGE Journals Online platform.  You can now tweet links to your favorite articles and to let colleagues and classmates know what you are reading and researching.  Twitter links are available at the abstract and full-text article pages [...]

Through GFU libraries you now have access to:
Oxford Journals
Over 200 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations.

Scholarly articles are also known as PEER-REVIEWED articles.  A “peer-reviewed” article means that it has been subjected to a PROCESS OF CRITICAL EVALUATION by one or more experts on the subject.  These are the types of articles that you will need for your scholarly research and they can be found in the scholarly journals that [...]

Embargo is “the period during which the articles published in a periodical are not available in online full-text from a  journal aggregator, usually the most recent one to three years.  Journal publishers have established such periods to prevent libraries from canceling print subscriptions.”
Here is an example from our catalog of a journal that has an [...]

Journal of Issues in Collegiate Athletics
http://csri-jiia.org/
Created as an initiative by the College Sport Research Institute (CSRI) the
Journal of Issues in Collegiate Athletics is “intended to foster an
atmosphere that encourages personal and intellectual growth for faculty and
students, demands excellence and professional integrity from faculty and
student affiliates, supports independent critical college-sport research,
and advocates for college athletes’ rights [...]

ERIC is the Education Resources Information Center which is an online digital library of education research and information.  This database contains over a million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials.  Essentially, ERIC combines citations from two separate indexes, one to non-journal or document publications and the other to journal publications.  All documents [...]

Business Source Complete is another database that is available through the GFU libraries.  It covers nearly 3,000 full-text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. So far, 1,184 journals have searchable cited references with January 2003 issues or earlier.  Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, 300+ [...]

The executive Board of the American Anthropological Association announced that beginning in 2009 it will provide free, full-text access to American Anthropologist and Anthropology News, two of its flagship journals.  This is the first initiative of its kind in the humanities and social science publishing world, according to the Open Access News blog.  Content from [...]

MasterFILE is another database that the library provides access to and it provides information on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health, and multicultural.  It provides indexing/abstracting for over 2,600 journals/magazines, with full text for 1,749.  The database also includes over 96, 600 full-text biographies, approximately 130, 250 full-text primary source documents, [...]

Here are some updated facts on our largest and one of our most popular databases, Academic Search Premier.

ASP contains indexes and abstracts on 8,312 journals
7, 234 of all of the journals are scholarly journals
4, 532 journals in ASP are full-text
3,773 of the full-text journals are scholarly journals

Need help finding an article or getting the article [...]