Quick guide: e-Duke | JSTOR | Project Muse | Sage | Wiley InterScience | Finding Journals | Managing Citations
The Library has several electronic full-text collections of scholarly material that are capable of supporting many types of faculty research.
e-Duke Scholarly Collection is from Duke University Press and includes access to 29 humanities and social science journals. The default search is imprecise to the point of distraction, so you might want to start with the Advanced Search.
e-Duke also has an electronic alert service, which can serve as an electronic Table of Contents notification.
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly articles with complete back runs of many titles but because of its role as an archive, no current issues. The typical JSTOR gap between their back issues and the most recent publication is anywhere from one to five years. There's still a lot of great cross-discipline material within the collection, though. In an effort to make it easier to track down specific articles, they've also added an article locator.
Project Muse is a scholarly collection of current work, comprised of 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 publishers. Muse has an easy-to-use search interface, and uses Library of Congress subject headings, which are also used in the CUNY+ catalog. For certain topics, subject headings are easier to use than keywords. Project Muse also supports RSS feeds, meaning you can have a journal's table of contents delivered straight to your RSS reader.
Sage Journals Online is a collection of journals across seven disciplines: Communications, Education, Health Sciences, Management, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. Like e-Duke, they also have an electronic alert service. Like e-Duke, Sage Journals Online also suffers from an imprecise basic search interface, so searches are more effective from the advanced screen.
Despite the name, Wiley InterScience is more than science content. It actually features full-text content from journals (Excel file) in Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine and Healthcare, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials Science, Psychology and Social Sciences. Like Project Muse, Wiley InterScience supports RSS feeds as a Table of Contents service. Unfortunately, where there is a lot of full-text content within Wiley, LaGuardia does not subscribe to all of its journals.
If there are certain journals you're interested in using for your research, you can see our print holdings by using the CUNY+ Journal Title Search. You can see our electronic holdings by using the 'Find a Specific Journal/Magazine' lookup tool.
Step one is clicking the Find a Specific Journal tab. Step two is typing the journal title. Then, you can see which databases hold that particular journal.