I was sort of shocked to run into a group of undergrads today who didn't know *any* of these electronic tools for research,available at most universities and even through some public libraries. If you surf in from home, you'll probably have to use your university's proxy server. Ask your librarian; they love questions about stuff like this.

Four online resources I couldn't live without:

Project Muse
Full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Terri's notes: I find this the most user friendly of all the databases. It allows you to print from HTML or in PDF form.

J-Stor (Scholarly Journal Storage)
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Terri's notes: Be sure to check both J-Stor AND Project Muse, since they tend to cover different journals in overlapping fields.

ProQuest
This is where I search for newspaper and magazine coverage on topics.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations
This is what it sounds like. Dissertations from your home school are usually free; others are available at a cost to you. Really useful for estoteric stuff. Abstracts are useful for those hunting for dissertation topics.

Anything you can't live without?