The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Archive, featuring over 3,000 full-text journals, 25,000 Dissertations, 14,000 SSRN working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

ProQuest Central combines the complete content of over thirty of the most heavily used ProQuest databases across all major subject areas, with deep coverage in business, health and medical, news, social sciences, arts and humanities, and science and technology. It provides access to scholarly journals, high value market research, country, economic, and industry reports, pre-print working papers, full text dissertations, and a vast number of newspapers, professional journals, and general interest periodicals.

“Proquest Central currently includes all the content available in these Proquest Databases:

ABI/INFORM Collection
ABI/INFORM Dateline (1985-Current)
ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (1971-Current)
Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection
Arts & Humanities Database
Asian & European Business Collection
Australia & New Zealand Database
Biology Database (1998-Current)
Business Market Research Collection
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Business
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Health & Medicine
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: History
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Literature & Language
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Science & Technology
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Social Sciences
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: The Arts
Canadian Newsstream
Career & Technical Education Database
Career & Technical Education Database: Business
Career & Technical Education Database: Health & Medicine
Career & Technical Education Database: History
Career & Technical Education Database: Literature & Language
Career & Technical Education Database: Science & Technology
Career & Technical Education Database: Social Sciences
Career & Technical Education Database: The Arts
Computing Database (1998-Current)
Continental Europe Database
Criminal Justice Database (1981-Current)
East & South Asia Database
East Europe, Central Europe Database
Education Database (1988-Current)
Family Health Database
Global Breaking Newswires
Health & Medical Collection
Health Management Database
India Database
India Database: Business (1998-Current)
India Database: Health & Medicine (1998-Current)
India Database: History (1998-Current)
India Database: Literature & Language (1998-Current)
India Database: Science & Technology (1998-Current)
India Database: Social Sciences (1998-Current)
India Database: The Arts (1998-Current)
International Newsstream
African Newsstream
Asian Newsstream
Australia & New Zealand Newsstream
European Newsstream
Latin American Newsstream
Middle East Newsstream
Latin America & Iberia Database
Library Science Database (1970-Current)
Linguistics Database
Middle East & Africa Database
Military Database
Nursing & Allied Health Database
Political Science Database (1985-Current)
Psychology Database
Public Health Database
Religion Database (1986-Current)
Research Library
Research Library: Business
Research Library: Health & Medicine
Research Library: History
Research Library: Literature & Language
Research Library: Science & Technology
Research Library: Social Sciences
Research Library: The Arts
Science Database
Social Science Database
Sociology Database (1985-Current)
Telecommunications Database (1995-Current)
Turkey Database
UK & Ireland Database
US Newsstream
CBS News 60 MINUTES
US Hispanic Newsstream
US Major Dailies
US Midwest Newsstream
US North Central Newsstream
US Northeast Newsstream
US South Central Newsstream
US Southeast Newsstream
US West Newsstream”

Indexes scholarly literature in the natural and social sciences. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars . Cited references from 1970-present, records from 1788-present.

NOTE: WMU users do not have access to SciVal through Scopus

This collection includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR, covering more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Also included are millions of primary sources from the 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and the Global Plants collections.

The JSTOR platform does not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years of a journal’s content. Current issues of journals hosted on the JSTOR platform are available through separate subscriptions on other platforms. Please check LibrarySearch for access to embargoed content.

This service from Google searches scholarly literature, including articles, theses, books and technical reports, and "gray literature" from many areas of research. Some materials are free, some will be available to WMU users by clicking on "Article Linker" while others may require a fee. Use this source in addition to library databases for a more complete search of scholarly literature.

To enable links from the "Find it@WMU" from off-campus computers, follow these instructions or watch a video tutorial :

1. Go to Google Scholar.
2. Click on the "options" wheel in the top right corner.
3. Select "Library Links" from menu on the left side.
4. In the "Library Links" search box, type "Western Michigan University Libraries".
5. Click the checkbox next to "Western Michigan University Libraries (ArticleLinker)".
6. Click the "Save".
8. A link to "ArticleLinker" should now appear next to those citations that are available electronically from the Libraries.