Pre-Law

JSTOR provides access to back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The complete backfiles of these journals have been digitized, starting with the first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. JSTOR's agreement with publishers includes an updating provision referred to as a "moving wall." The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR (more...).

Update Frequency: Daily
Henderson Library subscribes to the Standard Collection. Project Muse is a full-text database of scholarly journals covering: literature, history, art, political science, economics, math, and other fields in the arts and sciences. Users may either search full-text articles or browse the journals.

Coverage Dates: 1900- (Science Citation Index); 1900- (Social Science Citation Index); 1975- (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
Update Frequency: Weekly
Audience: Research
Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index covering over 8,000 journals. These three databases can be searched separately, in any combination, or all at once. These databases are unique in that the user can search to find which articles have cited a certain author or article. This technique of doing research, called pearl growing, allows researchers to find articles that are related to an earlier work. Often this technique turns up articles which are not found through traditional subject and keyword searches.