Online Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers

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 art, literature, and education to nursing, biology, and computers. Use descriptions to choose where to search.
• Gale • Two main subjects - biography and literature. Biography Best Choice: "Biography Resource Center + Maquis Who's Who". Literature Best Choice: "Literature Resource Center".
• 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.

Directly

• CQ Researcher • Overview articles on topics taken from current events, with one new article each week.
• JSTOR • Articles from the arts and sciences. Recent years are not included.
• 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).
• 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.
• Sanborn Maps of Louisiana • City and town maps from 1867-1970.
• World Book Advanced • Online encyclopedia from World Book.
• Worldcat (via FirstSearch) Searches other libraries at once, mostly academic libraries. Does NOT show what LSU Eunice owns.

LAST UPDATED - September 28, 2009