Academic Search
Academic Search is a vital academic research database offering a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals across various disciplines. It serves academic libraries, government agencies, and other institutions, providing essential resources for researchers and students. The Academic Search product line includes several databases tailored to different research needs, such as Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, and Academic Search Complete, each offering access to thousands of scholarly journals, magazines, and reports.
These databases not only feature full-text content but also provide PDF images, enhancing accessibility and usability. Academic Search Ultimate stands out as the most extensive option, catering to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences, humanities, and social sciences, with resources from both English-language and native-language journals spanning the globe. Additionally, Academic Search: Main Edition and Academic Search: Alumni Edition support undergraduate and alumni research pursuits, respectively, ensuring that users have access to critical scholarly information. EBSCO, the provider of these databases, has been a leader in research solutions for over seventy years, emphasizing quality content and technological innovation in academic research.
Academic Search
Academic Search is the essential academic research database for peer-reviewed, full-text journals. Each database in the Academic Search product line includes a wide selection of peer-reviewed content drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, making these databases well-suited to meet the needs of academic libraries, government agencies, and other institutions. With the exception of Academic Search: Main Edition, each database also provides access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. This collection, updated monthly, includes more than 75,000 videos dating back to 1930.
Academic Search Elite
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines. This resource covers a wide range of academic subjects, incorporating thousands of full-text journals along with abstracted and indexed journals. This database is sourced with PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.
Academic Search Premier
A popular resource found in many scholarly settings worldwide, Academic Search Premier is a leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources that cover the expansive academic disciplines offered in colleges and universities. This comprehensive content includes both PDF backfiles and searchable cited references.
Academic Search Complete
Designed for academic institutions, this database supports high-level research in key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books, and more. Academic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of thousands of full-text journals, allowing users to access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. Peer-reviewed scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
Academic Search Ultimate
Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indices. As the most comprehensive database in the Academic Search family, Academic Search Ultimate contains thousands of peer-reviewed, scholarly sources, including academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos. These resources meet the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline, including astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more. For students seeking a broader, more global perspective in their research, thousands of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Latin America provide an enormous advantage.
Academic Search: Main Edition
This resource provides full-text scholarly content for major college courses. Designed specifically for academic institutions and updated daily, this database provides full-text and peer-reviewed journals essential for undergraduate and graduate studies. Academic Search: Main Edition covers key subject areas such as biology, engineering, and psychology, and supports student research with acclaimed full-text, peer-reviewed journals. Most journals include PDF images, many of which are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.
Academic Search: Alumni Edition
With a broad academic scope, this database offers alumni an invaluable research tool for their post-college pursuits. It provides full text resources, as well as indexing and abstracts for thousands of peer-reviewed journals and general periodicals.
About EBSCO
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books, and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For more than seventy years, EBSCO has partnered with libraries to improve research with quality content and technology.