Academic Search Complete Formerly Academic Search Premier, Academic Search Complete is the world's most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 9,000 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,850 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.