Journals, magazines, and newspapers are called periodicals.

Magazines may be termed “light” reading, while a journal is considered “scholarly”. Articles appearing in a journal must meet standards set by a panel of experts and they are peer reviewed. Journal articles base their conclusions on proven data.

How Do I Use From Home?

The LeDoux Library gets the resources on this page from the state group LOUIS. To use them from home, your user name is your student ID number and your library PIN is changeme (all lower-case). There should be 3 boxes (ID, PIN, and School). (If not, see Online Books page.)

Indexes and Databases

Indexes and databases can help you find specific articles in periodicals.

By Company

• EBSCO • Wide range of topics from history, literature, and education to nursing, biology, and computers. Use descriptions to choose where to search. NOTE: SPORTDiscus & International Political Science Abstracts will NOT be available after 8/31/10.
• A few of the EBSCO databases have unique features that can only be used by searching them directly.
• Business Source Complete - used for company & industry profiles, market research reports, and business news. See also "LexisNexis" below for business research.
• Literary Reference Center - contains reference books, book chapters, and articles about literature. Note that not everything is scholarly and this is NO substitute for "MLA International Bibliography".
• Nursing Reference Center - articles, pamphlets, book sections, evidence-based care sheets, and other resources for nurses or nursing students. Can be combined with "CINAHL Plus" and/or "MEDLINE" under "Advanced Search", but those are best searched separately.
• Gale • Two main subjects - biography and literature. Biography Best Choice: "Biography Resource Center + Maquis Who's Who". Literature Best Choice: "Literature Resource Center".
• SPECIAL - Gale Virtual Reference Library - this is a collection of full-text reference books on a wide variety of subjects. It is on the "Journals" page because it uses the same method to log-in from home.
• ProQuest • Used for dissertations and nursing. If you want only one or the other, click on "Databases Selected" to search only the ones you check off.
• Readex • Two collections of historical newspapers. Use this link to search them both, or choose the collection you would like to search:
• African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
• America's Historical Newspapers - Louisiana State Package with 19th Century Times Picayune
• HW Wilson • Three related collections on art; you can search 1, 2, or all 3 by clicking on "Open Database Selection Area" and checking the one(s) to use.
• Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) - older articles on art and art journalism.
• Art Full Text (1984-Present) - more recent articles on art from around the world.
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1934-Present) - articles on architecture and design.

Directly

• CQ Researcher • Overview articles on topics taken from current events, with one new article each week. NOTE: Global Researcher articles will NOT be available after 12/31/10.
• JSTOR • Articles from the arts and sciences. Recent years are not included. NEW Interface!
  NOTE: Does NOT link out for additional full-text. Use GREEN Checked Articles ONLY.
• LearningExpress • Collection of education, career related material, practice tests, and many guidebooks (in their "e-books" section). Log-on using your LSU Eunice ID and Library PIN. You MUST create a separate username and password to use all features off-campus OR to take and score practice tests on-campus. Create your own username and password ON-CAMPUS.
• LexisNexis Academic • Sections include news (state and world newspapers), business (company profiles and SEC filings), and legal (federal & state cases, federal & state codes, and legal journals). NEW Interface!
• MathSciNet • An index of math articles. Many articles have abstracts and/or reviews, but there is no full-text. The "article" links mostly lead to fee databases, so you will need to search the LeDoux Library catalog to see if the library has access to any specific article or journal.

Other Materials

• Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online) • The most well-known and thorough dictionary of English. Entries give definitions, origins, and history. NOTE: Will NOT be available after 8/31/10.
• Sanborn Maps of Louisiana • City and town maps from 1867-1970.
• World Book Advanced • Online encyclopedia from World Book. NOTE: Will NOT be available after 8/31/10.
• Worldcat (via FirstSearch) Searches other libraries at once, mostly academic libraries. Does NOT show what LSU Eunice owns.

LAST UPDATED - August 25, 2010