If you have a topic: and you want...

...a few articles for a short paper, speech, etc.: Use

...a more complete search for research articles in specialized journals: Use

• the General Purpose Article Databases, that provide quick searching with many articles in full-text online
• the Newspaper Search page, that offers searches in national, regional, and international newspapers
  

• the Subject-Focused Search page, that lets you select the subject area of your topic, and then lists the article search tools that are best for finding in-depth research in that area.
  

If you know...

...the citation* for an article and want to see if the article is available: (*required information is: periodical title, volume #, beginning page #, year) Use

...a particular periodical that you are interested in: Use

• the Citation Linker. Enter the citation information for the article into the boxes and click "Look Up"
  

• the SUNY Potsdam Periodicals page to check by periodical title for its availability online or in paper.

To see all databases in an alphabetical list: Use

• the All Databases page.