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Faculty Support: Articles

Library resources for VWU faculty to support teaching and research.

JSTOR Register & Read Program

JSTOR has a relatively new service called "Register & Read".  This service may be used to access JSTOR content that is not included in our JSTOR collections. 

Sign up for free, read-online access to more than five million journal articles on JSTOR.

Step 1: Register Register for a free MyJSTOR account.

Step 2: Search Select an article in your search results, and click Read Online Free above the preview page.

Step 3: Add to Shelf. Add the article to your “reading shelf” to read the full text.

Save up to 3 articles on your shelf at a given time. After 14 days, you can remove articles and replace them with new ones. (That's up to 78 articles a year, FREE!)

If you have any questions, please contact a librarian.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar lists journal articles, books and other scholarly resources in a wide variety of subjects.  Links to the VWU library's holdings are included.

Google Scholar Search

Finding a specific journal title

To determine if the library has either online access or print copies of a specific magazine or journal, use Journal Finder on the library's main page.

Databases - Newspaper & News Sources

Databases - General

These databases are multidisciplinary and cover many subjects.

Higher Education

These resources will help you keep up with what's happening in Higher Education.

Resources for Teaching