Our Most Commonly Used Databases: 
Academic Search Complete - our new general database
EBSCOhost -  search up to all 36 EBSCO databases at once plus your MLA and APA citations are done for you.
Factiva (must use Internet Explorer) - Newspaper, journal, magazine, newswires, newsletters, media programs, web sites, and company report articles from all over the world.  All articles are full-text and updated daily.

and also consider:
Access Science  
CQ Press
Issues and Controversies  
JSTOR - access to older articles in the Arts & Sciences, Biological Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany, Health & General Sciences, Language & Literature and Mathematics & Statistics.
Opposing Viewpoints- gives both sides of an issue which is the only way to know your viewpoint
WorldCat - a worldwide catalog of over one billion items held in more than 10,000 libraries.

Subject Guide to Online Periodical Databases - use this if you have a subject area, for example psychology, but don't know which of our 200+ databases would work best for your topic.
Title List of Online Periodical Databases - if you know exactly which database(s) you want to search.
Houff Library Periodical Holdings - all of our magazines, journals and newspapers.
Peer Review in 5 Minutes- excellent five minute video on what constitutes a peer reviewed article.

What to do if the article you want isn't full-text in the database where you found it:
1.  Look in the Houff Library Periodical Holdings listing. Maybe you can check out the magazine or journal that has your article in it.
2.  Not there?  Then copy and paste the JOURNAL name in the following links This will tell you if it's full-text in one of our 200+ databases:
VIVA Online Journal Locator
VCCS Online Journal Search
3.  Try these sources: JSTOR, Wiley InterScience, Oxford University Press, American Chemical Society and ProQuest Historical New York Times Newspaper.
4.  Try DOAJ:  Directory of Open Access Journals at http://www.doaj.org/.  This has full-text to nearly 91,000 articles.
5.  If your journal still isn't full-text in either of these two links, then copy the ARTICLE title and and paste it into a Google search to see if it's on the author's home page or in an online journal.
6.  Type the JOURNAL title into Google and see if the journal is free online.
7.  If that fails, then use the BRCC Library's free Interlibrary Loan service.  Print the article information and bring that into the library or copy and paste the article information into the E-Mail a Librarian link and we will call you when the article arrives.

Remote Access Instructions - how to get our databases from home.

From Harrisonburg call 234-9261.  From Staunton call 213-7002.  From Waynesboro call 943-7002  Other VA areas call toll-free 888/750-2722, ext. 2226