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Articles on the Web
Access the best places on the Internet to find full text articles. Access free sites that have full text articles and more. COM Library patrons, go to COM Library's Database page to access thousands more full text articles that you can access on the Internet.

Free Articles on the Web
The sites listed below all offer free full text articles, or search sites that have free full text articles. Some may also offer archived (not current) articles for a fee, particularly the newspapers.

COM Library: News
Access articles from local, national and international newspapers and news sites from around the world, such as the New York Times, The Times (London), Village Voice, and the Washington Post. News sources are listed in Regional and Topical categories.

COM Library: News Journals
Another good place for journal articles is COM Library's News Journals page, which has links to journals such as Atlantic Unbound, NewsWeek and Time that have full text articles online.  

COM Library: Public Policy & Issues
Access full text articles, reports and position papers on US and World public policy and social issues from newspapers, think tanks, government sources and organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, The Center For Democracy and Technology, and The Urban Institute.

Moving Ideas
Moving Ideas, formerly the Electronic Policy Network, is dedicated to explaining and popularizing complex policy ideas to a broad  audience. Access news and resources from more than 120 Research and Advocacy Organizations. Special interest: Feature Articles.

FindArticles.com
(1998-current) Updated Continuously. FindArticles.com is a searchable archive of published articles from more than 300 magazines and journals. Searches can be limited to magazine and journal type, or the archive can be browsed by topic or journal. Journal Titles | FindArticles Help

Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute. The emphasis is on conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. Get the Heritage take on current issues. Special interest: Research Issues.

nationalissues.com
nationalissues.com is a non-partisan, issue-oriented that gathers the best articles and research from leading think tanks, news sources, advocacy groups and individual policy analysts and presents the information in one easily accessible site. Information is organized so that a user begins with summary information and continues with more detail on each issue. 

Yahoo! US Full Coverage
If your topic is one that might be covered in the news, try Yahoo! Full Coverage. For instance, if your topic was Gun Control, you would scroll down to All US Full Coverage, find Gun Control Debate and click on it. Notice a category on the left-hand side labeled Magazine Articles. Click on more to see all articles listed. Not all news topics will have magazine articles, but this is a good place to check. Special interest: Yahoo! All Health Full Coverage, Yahoo! All Science Full Coverage, Yahoo! All Technology Full Coverage.

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There are also sites that collect links to individual online or electronic journals. The journals may or may not include full text articles. One of the best is Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web, which lists sites that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees. Here are a few more to try: Electronic Journal Miner, LOC: A Short List of Periodical Titles on the Web, NewJour, and VOS: Journals & Zines.

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