Use the link below to search periodicals by name. A few periodicals are available in Ritter Library in print form, but most are available online via one of the OhioLINK or Ritter Library database subscriptions. If the periodical title appears on the result list, click either Full Text Access if you have a citation or Search within to search by article information. Link to the full text of an article.
If you want to do research across many different periodicals on a specific topic, use one of the databases listed on the Databases tab.
Use Interlibrary loan to request PDF's of articles that are not available through Ritter/OhioLINK subscriptions.
BW students, faculty and staff can click the hyperlinked title when they are connected to the BW network to gain immediate access. BW patrons will be prompted to log in with BW credentials when trying to access from off campus. Note that after gaining access it is not necessary to click on the prompt to make an account; however BW patrons may create an account to access their individual subscription on any device or with the WaPo app on any network.
Below are the steps that should be taken to activate new individual subscription access:
1. Visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/subscribe/signup to sign-up with your bw.edu email address
a. Agree to Terms of Service
b. Choose a password; click create an account
2. Check your BW email for a verification
3. Clicking the link activates your subscription
The JSTOR database is a digital library of journals, academic ebooks, and primary sources. Containing the full-text of more than 2,000 journals published from 1665 to within 5 years of the present year, JSTOR offers an opportunity to locate non-current articles. Indexed journals cover more than 60 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics.
The database provides access to over 100,000 ebooks from academic publishers. There are no limits on use and the ebooks can be downloaded by chapter in PDF format.
Millions of primary sources are included in the database. For more descriptive information about JSTOR see: https://guides.jstor.org/for-librarians/descriptions
To access JSTOR, go to https://bw.opal-libraries.org/login?url=https://www.jstor.org .
