Research Guides: Physics: Databases/Articles

Science Databases

Gale in Context: Science This link opens in a new window
Gale in Context: Science is a database that searches for resources in most science subject areas, providing a view of topics in context with society, history, innovation, globalism, ethics, future trends, and more. The content provided includes reference sources, magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.
SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
GreenFILE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE provides research from scholarly, governmental and general interest sources on environmental issues and efforts to minimize negative impacts within a variety of disciplines, including agriculture, education, law, health, and technology. The database includes such topics as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.

How to Choose a Topic

Created by David Taylor, University of Maryland University College.

News and Newspaper Databases

NewsBank America's News: Texas This link opens in a new window
This Newsbank collection provides cover to cover full text and some image editions of major Texas newspapers, including the Waco-Tribune Herald, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, and Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus provides selected full-text articles from national, regional, and international newspapers, as well as transcripts from television and radio.
ProQuest U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the full-text of current and extensive backfiles of U.S. newspapers, news services, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Westlaw provides full-text access to legal encyclopedias and law reviews, cases, federal administrative materials, statutes and legislative materials, federal and state constitutions, and European Union library of legal materials.

Search for Articles with Google Scholar

You can customize Google Scholar to link to full text articles from MCC Library collections....

Go to https://scholar.google.com/
Click the horizontal lines in the left corner next to the Google Scholar logo (Chrome browser) or next to My profile.
Click Settings and then Library links
Type MCC Library and hit enter
Deselect any other libraries and check the box next to McLennan Community College Library - Full-Text @ MCC Library
Click Save
Enter your article search

Click the Full-Text @ MCC Library beside the article to access it. For search results where there is no link for the MCC Library, you may get some free full text from the publisher or be asked to purchase the article.

google scholar