Find Articles is a service by LookSmart (remember them?) which provides access to a massive library of research quality articles from over 900 magazines and journals, dating back to 1998. While it's unclear how they define "research quality", it appears that the average quality of article is quite high, even for the free ones. It's imaginable that this might be a useful resource for students, however it's not going to replace Google or Wikipedia for up-to-date information on any topic imaginable any time soon.
For someone looking to find articles to reference or hyper-focused articles, Find Articles might be helpful.
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Subscribe to commentsJon HenshawAug 1st 2007 9:24AM
It's a nice tool, but often times they only provide the title and one sentence about the article, and not the article itself or a link to the article. For example, take these Men's Health articles. Clicking on the 2nd and 3rd article give you practically nothing and the first article is missing it's related images. However, I can see how this might be useful if you were trying to remember an article you read in a magazine. In this case, you would at least know what magazine it was in or in which issue it appeared.
Jon HenshawAug 1st 2007 9:25AM
Link in reference to the previous comment: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1608/is_5_23
Eric HossAug 1st 2007 10:15AM
What about AccessMyLibrary? That service provides a far larger quantity of articles (over 29 million, nearly triple what FindArticles provides): all are full-text and free to those with a library card. Even if you don't have a library card, you can still get restricted access to the content through a site registration.
Linky: http://www.accessmylibrary.com
alexAug 1st 2007 4:28PM
"however it's not going to replace Google or Wikipedia for up-to-date information on any topic imaginable any time soon."
I'd wish that this would replace wikipedia or google ... internet is missing a LOT on the authenticity side... so on Google it may look "up to date" but information can always be wrong...
helenAug 2nd 2007 8:36AM
While I can't comment on the content of this site, I would say that it seems to serve some very dubious ads - of the "Your computer is infected with p*rn" variety. I support a lot of students who are inexperienced computer users, and they come across articles on this site fairly often. I've lost count of the times I've had to explain to a panicked and embarrassed student that no, there isn't actually anything awful on their hard drive.
Ross BradleyAug 8th 2007 9:10PM
Health (as indexed) appears ok to my liking.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/tn_health
Cheers!