LibGuides: Young Scholars: Finding Books and Academic Articles

Finding Books

Searching the Library Catalog

In the Library Catalog, you can search for materials from Reed College. Choose "Reed Library" to limit your search to books and media at Reed.

Summit and Interlibrary Loan materials are not available to Young Scholars.

Journal Articles

These databases allow you to search the contents of periodicals to identify articles on your topic. If you find a citation for an article that is not linked to full text, check the Library Catalog to see if Reed subscribes to the journal and if we have the particular issue.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text archive of selected core scholarly journals in various disciplines. All parts of the journals are scanned, including any images.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database that provides some full text and some citations for thousands of journals. A good starting place for beginning research and quickly finding articles for a variety of topics.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus indexes content from 24,600 active titles and 5,000 publishers which is rigorously vetted and selected by an independent review board, and uses a rich underlying metadata architecture to connect people, published ideas and institutions. Science focused.