FindArticles Relaunched, Expanded, and Integrated

FindArticles.com has relaunched and expanded to covering 700 publications with full text articles from Gale, up several hundred periodicals from its previous version. Along with LookSmart's announcement, the FindArticles database is now accessible as a tab directly from the LookSmart site, which should raise its prominence.

The new LookSmart and FindArticles interfaces have three tabs for searching -- the LookSmart Directory, the Web (Wisenut), and Articles. They have changed the default operation to AND and continue to support phrase searching and the - as a NOT operator.

FindArticles is still a small database compared to the large aggregator databases offered by InfoTrac, EbscoHost, Wilson, and ProQuest, among others, not to mention the full text electronic journal databases from many publishers. But for users without ready access to such databases or to a library with such access, FindArticles certainly adds some great quality content to the free Web.