Academic Search is a monthly indexing service. It was first published in 1997 by
EBSCO Publishing in
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Ipswich is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,785 at the 2020 census. Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich includes the southern part of Plum Island. A reside ...
. Its academic focus is international
universities, covering
social science,
education,
psychology, and other subjects. Publishing formats covered are
academic journals,
magazines,
newspapers, and
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM (, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data. Computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold both comput ...
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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete was first published in 2007 as Academic Premier. It is an
indexing and
abstracting
An abstract is a brief summary of a research article, thesis, review, conference proceeding, or any in-depth analysis of a particular subject and is often used to help the reader quickly ascertain the paper's purpose. When used, an abstract always ...
service, accessible via the
World Wide Web. Coverage includes more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300
peer-reviewed
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
journals. In addition to full text, Academic Complete offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of more than 10,600 publications including
monographs, reports, conference proceedings, among others. Although coverage is from 1965 to the present,
PDF
Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...
back-file content coverage is from 1887.
Subject areas covered include:
animal science,
anthropology,
area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering,
ethnic and multicultural studies,
food science including related technology, general science, geography, geology, law,
materials science, mathematics,
mechanical engineering, music,
pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion and theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and other fields. It is updated on a daily basis.
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Field searches include full text articles (references can be included), academic journal titles, author, publication dates, abstracts, summations, cited references, and relevant images. Article results can also include thumbnail images.
See also
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List of academic databases and search engines
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and ...
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Google Scholar
References
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Bibliographic databases and indexes
EBSCO Industries