Articles & Datasets - Search Engines — A Sampling of Alternatives to Google - LibGuides at University of San Francisco School of Law

Finding Articles - Specialized Search Engines

Try in addition to Google Scholar...

If you find a citation to an article but no link to the text, or if you hit a paywall, See the Journal Finder box below to check whether USF has the journal in print or digital format.

BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
A multi-disciplinary search tool (for articles and more) from Germany’s Bielefeld University Library. BASE searches over 100 million documents (including articles) from over 5000 sources. Results are drawn from journals, institutional repositories, and digital collections. Try BASE Advanced Search as well.

Journal Finder – Is the Journal I Need at USF?

So you have a citation to a great-sounding article — but not direct link to the full text....

How do you tell if the article is available at USF?

Just use USF's "Journal Finder" to look up the title of the journal that published the article. If that journal is available at USF, it will (usually) show up in the journal finder.

(One caveat: the Journal Finder doesn't tell you if a journal is on Westlaw or on Lexis Advance.)

Journal Finder - USF Libraries This link opens in a new window
Enter the title of the journal to see if USF has the journal and article you need. (A link to "USF Print and Online Journal Holdings" means that one of the USF libraries has the journal - or some years of it - in print.) (For off-campus access to digital journals in your Journal Finder results, enter your last name and USF ID number.)

Finding Datasets

Dataset Search - Google (beta)
"Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful."